Dates for free guided walks at Chek Jawa for Jul-Sep 06
are already posted on the NParks website
and will be available for booking on 1 Jun 06
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/nparks_cms/display_level3.asp?parkid=6&catid=2&subcatid\
=1

There are only two dates available for this period:
16th July 06 Sunday 8.30 am
17th July 06 Monday 8.30 am

To book a slot for these free guided walks, call the NParks Ubin
Hotline at Tel: 6542-4108 ; 6545-4761 or visit the Ubin Information
Kiosk between 8.30 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. Each booking call is entitled
to make reservation of up to maximum 10 places. A booking number
would be given for successful booking.

Please be patient and understanding with the kind folks at Ubin who
are always trying their best to accommodate all requests.

Why are numbers of visitors to Chek Jawa limited?
Can I bring a group of 100 to Chek Jawa?
Answers to these and more on the FAQs page of wildsingapore.com
http://www.wildsingapore.com/chekjawa/text/i030d.htm

A plea from the Chek Jawa guides:
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Please do not sign up and then don't turn up.

This deprives genuine visitors of a place.

Also remember that the volunteer guides take leave during weekdays to
be there for those who signed up. Just because the walk is free for
you doesn't mean that there isn't a cost to the volunteers who make
it possible.

This plea is especially directed to those who sign up in large
groups.

Want to come to Chek Jawa all the time?
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Be a Chek Jawa volunteer guide! MORE volunteer guides are need so as
to share Chek Jawa with MORE people. For more about guiding at
Chek Jawa email Adelle at Wang_Shumin@...

Beyond Chek Jawa?
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Our other wild shores are just as wonderful and exciting. And
dedicated volunteers have made it possible for ordinary people to
visit them. Some of them without having to dive or swim!

Pulau Semakau Public walks
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The Raffles Museum of Biodiversity research conducts guided walks on
Pulau Semakau to see wild reefs, mangroves and the largest seagrass
meadows in the Southern shores (even larger than the one at Chek
Jawa). For more photos, stories and details about these walks and
how to sign up for them on
wildsingapore http://www.wildsingapore.com/places/semtour.htm
and the RMBR website http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/workshop/

Kusu Island Public reefwalk
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The Blue Water Volunteers conduct guided walks on our fabulous coral
reefs of Kusu Island. For more details about these walks and how to
sign up for them
http://www.bluewatervolunteers.org

Dive Pulau Hantu
with the Hantu Bloggers
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These Hantu enthusiasts regularly dive our very own reefs. See their
photos and learn more about reefs
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/pulauhantu/

Dates open for booking for the Hantu dives
11 Jun (Sun) and 25 Jun (Sun)

Join the The Hantu Bloggers Yahoo Group to read the trip itinerary,
and to be informed of future dives.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hantubloggers/

Join the beachfleas trips
to all our shores
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Together with volunteers with wildfilms, I document all our shores
every low tide and welcome other like-minded people. We do above
water trips and are planning dive trips as well. Above water trips
are very early in the morning and generally happen during weekdays;
typically 0200hrs-sunrise.

For more of what we see and do, visit the wildfilms blog
http://www.wildsingapore.com.sg/wildfilms/blog/

For more about the beachfleas see
http://www.wildsingapore.com/beachfleas/

To find out more about these trips, email Ria at
hello@... (please put "Beachfleas" in the subject
header, I get a lot of spam)