Cycling with the Dragon

It was an overcast morning on Sunday. Dark clouds were hovering above the sky and it looked like it was going to rain. We decided to go ahead with our cycling schedule and if it rains, so be it.

Originally we had wanted to cycle along Coastal Park Connector, a route that connects ECP area H to Changi Beach Park. While driving to area H, we found another park connector (Siglap Park Connector) that can take us to Bedok Reservoir Park from ECP via Bedok Town Park and Telok Kurau Park. We decided to take this route and leave the Coastal Park Connector for another day as I was interested to know what the route was like and where it would lead us to.

What is interesting about these park connectors is that proper bicycle and jogging paths are created for the public to use. It has proper lighting along the route and they are mostly lighted from 7pm to 7am. Most of these connectors are build along the main river/canal system in Singapore island.

Along the way, I discovered so many Big Water Mouth that one would missed it, even if looking from Google Earth or with a street map on hand. You could see where it all started, which underground tunnel it flows to and where it rises up again. You’d be surprise where some of these river flows underneath…

As we cycle along, we could see nice, huge bungalow houses, industrial offices as well as run-down properties. From a perspective of a trained eye, you could immediately tell why those properties look the way they looked. It is just a matter of whether they are tapping or not, or perhaps, situated on the wrong side of the equation.

Upon reaching Bedok Reservoir Park, we found out there is another way back to ECP. This is the Bedok Park Connector. We took this route to return to ECP but not before we had finished our morning breakfast at the nearby Bedok Reservoir kopitiam.

Overall, we did about 14km bicycle ride across two different Park Connectors. It was a really good exercise and I get to note down the location of the BWM. We will be exploring more Park Connectors in due time.