This morning we decided to hunt for some kaya toast (Toast with a coconut butter) for breaky. After consulting the lonely planet we headed for a place near the hotel. As it was chokers, we settled on a place 2 door’s up. The meal also came with a ½ boiled egg. Like only ½ cooked. Passed on that part of the meal. As for the rest of it. Sometimes it is better not to know what you are missing. The toast was beautiful.
Late decision to do the bird park and went to taxi option again. This time only $10 and 15 minutes. First stop was the penguin feeding. A nice indoor air-conditioned exhibit that you could watch them swimming underwater. Now that was a cool thing to watch. We also managed to jag feeding time so it was full of action. Then, as you do we went to see bird show No1. It had flamingos, more bike racing macaws, low flying hornbills, macaws flying through hoops, even paper hoops where I nailed the photo at point of contact. A very good show to start the day. Now off to see the rest of the park.
Passed by the kingfishers, red ibis, a few Aussie seagulls and watched nature take its course in the Crowned Pigeon walkthrough aviary. We checked out the lorry loft. A huge aviary loaded with hungry parrots we could feed. Would have been great if the camera and big lens did not stop talking to each other. Big GRRR and it was extremely hot also. We carried on to see the birds of prey and flightless birds. It was time for our compulsory drink stop and a bit to eat. Then past the beautiful flamingos and talking birds. Past parrot paradise, gee there were some colourful birds. Then into the so-called biggest walk in aviary in the world, with the biggest man made waterfall. I was not going to argue when they have both a kiosk and a monorail station inside the aviary. It was huge and had loads of birds floating around. African grey parrots were acting like seagulls in the kiosk. We walked up to the waterfall at 30m in height and it did not seem that you were in an aviary. Unfortunately we did not spend enough time in there, as we wanted to see the bird of prey show. Could have spent hours in there.
So onto the bird of prey show. A very good show with plenty of big birds and a lot of low fly-bys over the audience. Eagles were taking meat off plates at high speed. Well trained birds and thoroughly enjoyed by all. After this we thought Ryan deserved some time out of the stroller and took him to the wet/dry playground. It had lots of water spouts and sprays but we were not sure how he would take it. He does not normally like getting his hair wet. Well he absolutely loved it. Laughing and giggling going through the sprays and playing with the spouts. He got totally drenched and had the time of his life. I must say we got a great deal of enjoyment watching it too. We all walked away happy campers. Before leaving we tied up the loose ends and saw the owls, hornbills and toucans. Now that is a cool type of bird…ahhhh the Guinness : ) The walkthrough aviaries were a great way to see a lot of birds without the bars, especially the bird of paradise one.
Now outside we took one look at the cab line and had concerns. Not many cabs at all so we decided to go wait for a bus to the MRT station. After waiting 15 minutes in the heat a private bus pulled up “MRT, MRT for 70 cents”. We took the chance and he drove us straight to the MRT station. As we were at the end of the line the station was above ground and we got to see a fair bit on the way back to the city. It took a little longer than the cab, but we made it in the end.
Plans had been made to go the Malay Quarter to see the lit up stuff for the festival. But Marketa called to tell us it was too crowded and no place for a stroller and not really worth the effort. I took the opportunity to head for a famous Singapore dish – Chilli crab. A bit of a search was required to find a crab and success was had in one of the local food courts. She pulled it out the cage, still kicking and weighed it up. That will cost you $30. Done : ) It was delicious and the taste buds were getting used to the hot stuff. Tucked into it with the fingers to ensure that I got it all. Very messy but yummmmy. Accompanied it with rice, bread and our “go-to” drink for the trip, lemon iced tea.
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