Coast-to-Coast Trail: CP6 to CP7

Sunday 2019.09.22

Coast-to-Coast Trail	Day 02
Start	Checkpoint 06 Luxus Hill Park
End	Checkpoint 07 Sengkang Riverside Park
Distance	2.69 km

C2C Trail CP6 to CP7 2.69 km

After yesterday's walk from CP5 (AMK-Bishan Park) to CP6 (Luxus Hill Park), we continued with the second leg of our C2C Trail journey today by walking from CP6 to CP7 (Sengkang Riverside Park, also known as the Floating Wetlands). It was a leisurely walk over a distance of about three km.

We started our journey from CP6 at about 06:26 hrs and arrived at CP7 at 07:12 hrs

06:26 hrs CP6, our short walk started here

06:49 hrs A long deserted road ahead

06:50 hrs Another 1.8 km to go

07:12 hrs Yay! We have reached CP7 Sengkang Riverside Park after walking for 46 minutes

07:13 hrs We decided to spend some time exploring the Sengkang Riverside Park nearby

07:14 hrs This is the bridge that brings us over to the Sengkang Floating Wetlands in the middle of the Punggol river.

07:15 hrs Walking across the Punggol River towards the west bank of the Riverside Park

07:15 hrs A long road bridge spans the north-eastern part of the Punggol River

07:16 hrs Looking out towards the middle of the Punggol River

07:17 hrs Lots of Piai Raya ferns, acrostichum aureum

Piai Raya ferns are usually found in brackish waters on the land side of mangrove swamps. Traditionally, the leaves can be shredded and pounded to make a poultice for treatment of boils, ulcers and even snake bites.

The southern-most tip of Johore state is Tanjung Piai, named after this medicinal fern.

07:17 hrs A zoomed out view of the Piai Raya ferns

07:20 hrs Large slices of "oranges" for public seating on the platform of the Floating Wetlands

Coast-to-Coast Trail: CP5 to CP6

Saturday 2019.09.21

Coast-to-Coast Trail	Day 01
From	Checkpoint 05 (AMK-Bishan Park 1)
To	Checkpoint 06 (Luxus Hill Park)
Distance	6.59 km with a detour to AMK Town Gdn West

C2C Trail CP5 to CP6: 6.59 km

This morning we began our first leg of walking the Coast-to-Coast (C2C) Trail by starting at Checkpoint 5 (CP5) in AMK-Bishan Park near our apartment block. In the comng weeks, we intend to cover all the Checkpoints from CP5 to CP10 in Punggol in the north-east, after which we will start from CP5 again and head "backwards" to CP1 in Jurong Lake Gardens on the south-west side of the island.

06:30 Start. We couldn't find CP5, so we started at one of these signposts, AMK-Bishan Park

A blur map in the twilight of dawn wasn't of much help to us

Reached the end of AMK Ave 6, looking south

We turned right, crossed the intersection to AMK Ave 5, and headed east

08:10 hrs We arrived at Luxus Hill, distance 6.59 km

CP6 is located at Luxus Hill Park

A snapshot of Luxus Hill Park

We came across a C2C promotion banner in the park

Goodbye! Luxus Hill Park

08:16 hrs
We finished our slow journey from Checkpoint 5 to Checkpoint 6 in this first leg of walking the Coast-to-Coast Trail. A distance of 6.59 km that took us about an hour and forty-five minutes.

08:34 hrs
We boarded double decker bus no. 50 at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 towards AMK Hub.

Aboard double decker no.50 along AMK Ave 5

Passing by AMK Stn across Ave 3

10:44 hrs
Later, I cycled out to AMK-Bishan Park to look for the starting Checkpoint 5 which we missed this morning. After some exploring, I found it beside the Water Playground.

At last, I found CP5 !

Beside the Water Playground.