The third recce

We completed the final installment of our recce today – the march from bukit timah to macritchie. It was challenging but manageable and we made do fairly well without maps! Save for a couple of detours when one path was choosen over another, we completed our journey in 3 and a half hours. We had fun along the way, like racing down a particular stretch, and even laughing ourselves silly was we watched pearlene hit a signpost forcefully to ascertain if it was pointing in the right direction! :) Thereafter, we had lunch in the sweltering heat of a coffeeshop in serangoon and settled down for another exercise of sorts. A 3 hour meeting ensued as we hammered the entire camp programme in detail. It was satisfying to make significant headway as the weeks to camp draw near.

a group picture after our trek.:) (val took the picture)

(peering at the poor tortise in the water...whatever happened to privacy? haha.)

(a feast for the eyes! trekking isn't about trees and leaves.)