Species hunting adventures in Singapore: Day 6 continued.

On our way back to the ferry pier on Pulau Ubin we walked through an area that had some nice red flowers and there were quite a few rather large, deep red dragonfly flying about. Lee managed to creep up on one and got a good photograph.

Lovely colourful flowers.

The dragonfly was a deep red colour but its wing tips were transparent. Was this an evolutionary trick to make prey think they were a butterfly or a flower perhaps? They are one of nature’s most efficient and vicious predators. 

We carried on walking back to the pier and arrived there with plenty of time to spare, so we did a spot of fishing from a small sandy beach nearby that had with some rocks on it that went out into the water. The bottom was also a mixture of sand and rock and as a result there were plenty of anchor tuskfish, seagrass tuskfish, diamond wrasse and pink ear emperor around. We also managed to pull out a couple of species that added to our tally for the trip.

We caught quite a few of these pink ear emperor.

There were a few of these aggressive little Kop’s glass perchlet in the very shallow water next to the rocks where the waves were gently breaking.

Casting out over the sandy patches produced a few silver sillago.

Before we left, we had a few last casts straight down the side of the ferry pier itself. As well as some notchfin threadfin bream and diamond wrasse I caught another new species before the ferry captain told us it was time to go.

My first white shouldered whiptail. A bonus new species just before we left Pulau Ubin.  

Soon back on the mainland we decided to have a short session fishing from a couple of sandy beaches near the ferry terminal before heading back to the hotel. These only produced a few more silver sillago, and they stopped biting once it began to get dark, but the sunset was nice.

A beautiful sunset over Pulau Ubin. 

Over dinner and beers we decided to return to the Southern Islands the following day, our last day in Singapore. It had proved to be the most productive place we had fished, and I was keen to see a little more of the Southern Islands the second time around.

Tight lines, Scott.

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