Yesterday, I also saw a couple of big Malayan water monitor lizards, chilling around

I also saw clouded monitor lizards, so cute!

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I had seen mangrove forests before, elsewhere in Singapore, but I had never seen tree-climbing crabs or telescope snails. Also: seeing what looked like cockles on tree roots was just new and weird and special to me. Fab!

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I had never seen this before: a water-spitting fish.

Turns out it's called an Archer Fish, and it was hunting for ants on a tree by spitting water at them to make them fall down from the tree, ready for the fish to snack on. As I was watching, another archer fish actually came by and was repeatedly chased away by the first one. "My tree!" It looked like the needle fish were *also* trying to munch on the fallen ants, hanging around the first archer fish and speeding towards any fallen ants whenever they dared.

It was amazing to watch, but hard to capture in a picture. This was my most successful attempt, but the fish could easily spit water up to a height of 50 cm, probably more!

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I also saw this sign for the first time. I had been to the Woodlands before, and people had mentioned that there were crocodiles there, just as I was ankle-deep in the water because it had *rained*, but now I actually saw this sign.

As a Dutchie, I always believe that other cultures are way too "betuttelend" with their warnings for everything, so naturally, I thought "Aw. It's Singapore. How bad can it possibly be!?"

That naiveté only lasted for about 15 minutes, after which I went "yo wtf!?"

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