Tanjung Piai on 21 Nov 2009

A rather long-overdued entry.

Went with a few other nature volunteers to Tanjung Piai in Johor last Sunday, 21 Nov 2009. How I wish that Singapore will also has such nice and extensive mangroves!


Found this hawkmoth in the toilet when we stop by the petrol station. Thought the wings were really interestingly shaped.


When we reached Tanjung Piai, there was a little stream with several blue-spotted mudskipper (Boleophthalmus boddarti). They were really cute, and kept turning their head left and right while feeding on the algae.


Tanjung Piai has a really huge mangrove forest with lots of mature mangrove trees. Don't think we can find this in Singapore any more.


Mother long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) with baby.


Looks like a juvenile shore pit-viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus) to me.


I was really excited to see several mangrove skinks (Emoia atrocostata) here. We hardly see them back in Singapore!


The area nearer to the sea had lots of rubbish... Probably washed up during high tide...


We saw this juvenile Malayan monitor lizard (Varanus salvator). Looks like it's moulting.


There were lots of Lenggadai (Bruguiera parviflora). Here's its flower.


We found a few thespesia firebugs (Dysdercus simon) on a sea hibiscus! There was a portia tree just next to the sea hibiscus though.


On the same tree, a few cotton stainer bugs (Dysdercus decussatus) were happily mating.


Several of the teruntum bunga puteh (Lumnitzera racemosa) were flowering.


There were quite a few camp sites there on the boardwalk! Thought this was really a very interesting concept.


This was a rather blur photo, but I decided to post it since we saw this snake (probably a bronzeback) with a frog in its mouth! The poor frog was squeaking very loudly.

All in all, it was a very interesting with lots of nice sightings :)