Surprise, Beach. (I bet you thought you saw the last of me)

Exams ended last week which means I've spent the same amount of time laying in bed but much less of that time is spent going "god i need to study".

Before I start off I'd like to say that either I or my computer junked up and my photos all got deleted while I was transferring them from my phone BUT THANKFULLY I sent 2/3 of them to Audrey so I just saved those but ofc I still lost like 50 photos (some of which were really A+++) and whatsapp sent photos don't have the best quality 

Three weeks ago, Audrey (hi audrey) found out about this ~secret hideout-y beach~ which is really just one of Singapore's offshore islands, specifically Lazurus Island.

Crappy photo i took of the map at the train station 

Ferry timings on Sundays are much more regular and convenient than any other day, leaving Marina South Pier every two hours from 9-5 as opposed to the two or three ferries from Monday to Saturday.

We left on the 1pm ferry that brought up to St. John's island and I spent a lot of time complaining about how the boat was swaying because yes a boat swaying in the ocean is such a surprise, wow I did not expect that. Someone brought their husky onto the boat which was SO EXCITING that I accidentally hit Audrey in the face in my haste to tell her there was a husky on board.

Aside from the Husky, the 20 minute boat ride was fairly uneventful.

 this is the only photo i got because firstly i was not enthusiastic to stand up on a moving boat and secondly because the gunwales were consistently occupied

At St.John's Jetty

While researching the Island's we found out that there were a junk load of cats on St.John's island and I was arguably more excited about that than anything else. So ofc the first order of business was to go find some cats and take 30 pictures of them. We turned left and, maybe in about 10 meters, there was this little grassy patch that had four cats sleeping. FOUR CATS. IN ONE PLACE. I took a bunch of photos.

cat feat my weather confused ootd

cat why are you making that face

Anyway we finally moved on from the cats and made our way to the beach. I DON'T KNOW WHY but we, or at least I, were under the impression that it would be a fairly decent stroll to Lazurus Island's beach but nO it was sunny as heck and I am whiney as hECK.

We saw some nice ocean stuff tho.

this is not a very good photo why did i take it

Other than the short walk on the connector from St. John's Island to Lazurus Island, the rest of the walk was mainly just trees and other plant things.

still nice to look at but I do not handle sun well

We almost gave up because after about half an hour we started to doubt if we were even heading in the right direction but through a series of (two) fortunate events - namely, Audrey suggesting we walk in the shade and me getting distracted by a boat sail - we stumbled upon the beach. I feel like I should use more adjectives.

pictures, thousand words, lazy blogging, you know the drill. 

we saw some Lalang and the first thing Audrey did was pluck out a hand full and go
"I AM KILLING YOU IN FRONT OF YOUR FAMILY" 

The beach was fairly empty but we still made our way further down where my scarf transformed into a mat because I am resourceful and we had lunch

"Let's take a picture of our food"
"What why"
"I want people to know I leave my house" 

"Distributaries!"
"Those aren't distributaries."  

we saw some crab holes I think  

Audrey promptly tried to kill them 

We left at about 3 to catch the 350 boat from the Pier and on the way back I took more photos of cats because cats.

ahh claws

It's a one eyed cat and I'd name it Frank

We took the boat to Kusu Island which is turtle island; there's a whole back story for that but I am not a good story teller. Basically a turtle turned itself into an island for two sailors.

Obligatory tourist shot 

We saw this wising well and I looked further down and then this conversation happened

"Look a turtle!"

"Oh my god! Wait is it real?"

"I don't know, it doesn't really look real"

"Yeah, I think its a statue"

And then we walked away. I will bring this back later.

Being turtle island, it had it's fair amount of turtles, real and fake.

"It looks like the top turtle is the top asshole turtle. And the other two and trying to overthrow it." 

"Go sit down I'll take a photo of you" 

It turns out that Kusu Island also has it's own beaches, albeit much much much smaller, but what it likes in size it makes up for in emptiness.

hi audrey

Audrey was really excited about walking along the breakwater and then we got closer and chickened out because it looked unstable and we are wimps basically 

is it obvious we were hiding under shade 

teeny tiny hazy skyline 

After we walked an entire round and reached the pier again, we still had an hour before the boat arrived so we just sat in a gazebo like bums.

Anyway we went back to the wishing well place because the jetty was right next to it and then I looked down and gUESS WHAT the turtle statue was gone. From head to toe, it was a meter long. It was a real turtle. AND NO ONE KNEW. Sorry for the anti-climax but if you want you could pretend it's a magic statue that dissapears as the sunset for spiritual reasons that'll be cool right.

Anyway we got on the boat and got stuck on the top deck which was TERRIBLE because it shook a lot and sometimes if lifts go too quickly I get motion sickness it was not a pleasant ride is what I'm saying