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A little aside for the Ubin trip.

This year, we started preparing dinner much, much earlier and consequently, we were able to start our night cycling even before the sun set. As usual, the Sea Scouts took it in turn to lead the trail. We made for Nordin beach using the the off road trail and due to the construction around the prawn sluice gates area, the trail layout became unfamiliar.

It was rather daunting to cycle along that muddy, rocky, port holes filled made-shift road. It became more scary when we were trying to maneuver the bicycles across many of these obstacles in the half-light conditions. In the end, we gave up this leg of the journey totally and made a U-turn. Erhm, I wouldn't say that the hooves marks on the muddy trail did not made its point with us. I would not want my Sea Scouts and Akelas to meet with a family of charging wild boars in these diminishing visibility conditions.

If I was scared initially, I was terrified while we were making our way out of the off road trail. I was not able to make out the person cycling directly in front of me! We resorted to calling out loud. Were we relieved when we reached the tarmac road!

We went for a drink or two at the shop with no fixed prices - somehow, the shopkeeper charges different prices for the same items. The jetty was breezy and it was nice to laze around before heading back.

Nobody talked about the returned trail but well, you guessed it, we decided to stick to the tarmac road!

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