Singapore's tallest hill
Bukit Timah summit, at a height of a mere 163m. Still, 'scaling' something is always exciting. The last time I went to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve was more than six years ago, with my churchmates. Then, we didn't reach the top but circled around the lower paths. And, then, I wasn't this into nature yet... not really. ThiHa and Jeanne joined in the fun (needless to say, whatever I do nowadays includes Xi and Wink; shame on Marv for being such a poor host) and we had a great time. A great diversity of invertebrate life... drongoes... other forest birds, and Clouded monitors. Saw some weird-looking caterpillar, and I've absolutely no idea to what family it belongs. The sighting of the Spiny hill terrapin was a treat, and the calls and presence of the Hill mynahs and the spread of the canopy below made you feel as though you were at a great elevation indeed. There was an adorable juvenile-ish Green crested lizard, a very tame one, and ThiHa and I managed to play a while with it. While it is relatively easy to grab a Changeable lizard (an introduced, more robust species, it has displaced the once-common native Green crested) and observe it up-close in the hand, such an encounter with the Green crested from the wild is almost a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Some hairy caterpillar
Giant forest ant
Green crested lizard
Green crested lizard on my arm
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