Project Semakau: 4th Trip - Transect Studies

Today woke up very early in the morning and took a cab down to Marina South Pier. Along the way, I kept seeing lightnings brightening up the sky. And I know was a bad bad sign. It rained when we were on the ferry to Pulau Semakau. Kindly, the rain stopped when we arrived. However there were still thick dark cummulonimbus clouds around.




I guess the South-west monsoon was doing the job, helping us to blow away the clouds. This give us a lot of hope that the weather would be good today. There's no bus today to bring us to the intertidal site. So we had to walk quite long distance. Lucky the weather is cooling. I enjoyed it very much as I could look out for more things.


Finally the real job had to get started. It was my first time doing transect survey and I'm posted to do the seagrass transect... which I don't really like because I don't know how to differentiate between seagrass. Haha. Thanks to Samuel and Crystal who guided me along. We completed our transect quite fast as our region was quite bare. I'm glad that I had gained quite a knowledge on seagrass after the transect survey. I didn't take photos on seagrass today probably the next time then I will do it. Let's see my 'harvest' today...

Sunrise at Semakau

A Half Rainbow that brighten up our day!

Intertidal area - Super bright Day!

Am I seeing the formation of a coral... (edited: is zoanthids)

Knobby Sea Star, the icon of our project. Seems that it has one shorter arm.

Dragonfish Sea cucumber. camouflage very well between the rubbles.

Carpet Anemone. Excited!

Exposing shore when we left.