Harbor Cruise

What is it about being on the water that gives such a different perspective of what a waterfront city looks like?  We took a harbor cruise because it had easy access for mom.  We had tried to take a river boat -sort of a water taxi-but there really was no landing that had a way for mom to get on the boat.   This particular cruise was a sort of Chinese junk.

It could have been tacky, but it was actually very nice.  The harbor is interesting because almost all the shipping is off shore...there is no real docking area and the ships are all anchored off shore and there are taxis to take crew back and forth to shore...

The cruise was about 2 and a half hours and went past several islands, one of which we stopped at.  

Sentosa Island has apartment blocks and looks sort of like Miami...

A lot of these towers looked unfinished and it seemed that pretty exclusive...the views are all of shipping.  

The views back to the city showed the same skyscrapers we had seen from land but from a different perspective.

We stopped on Kusu Island which also has a tortoise sanctuary....it has a Chinese temple and an old Malay temple.  We walked around while Mom rested on the boat.   I even saw the only sort-of-lighthouse on the whole trip.

The Malay temple was up many steps on a small hill.  There were several alters.

 There was also an offering and incense table.

I love that this little out-of-the-way place obviously has lots of visitors...I really enjoyed the trip and it was nice and cool on the water, which was refreshing after so much heat.

Love these fan palms.

An egret-couldn't get any closer though.

Heading back to Singapore, passing container ships...a very nice cool day...

Lovely clouds on the horizon.  You can see Indonesia in the distance.