Getting ready for Sentosa

50 adventurous volunteers gave up a Saturday afternoon to get together for the Sentosa Seagrass Transect.

Coming from all walks of life and from all ages, all have come together from a desire to make a difference for our shores.

Siti and I are most impressed, and much overwhelmed, by the heartful responses from everyone. The sign ups just kept coming in. There was even one more sign up the night before Orientation!

We did it all in the comfort and immense space of NParks' wonderful briefing room.
Thank you Wei Ling and friends for making it possible!!

Siti explained all about seagrasses and their importance, and emphasised (strongly) the difference between seagrasses and algae (seaweed). Algae is obviously not one of Siti's favourite things. She also showed how the transect equipment should be used.

We also figured out together the programme for the day, with many important inputs from everyone.

Then everyone got down to trying out the transect processes on dry land.

Figuring out the compass ...







For the trial run, we had to use make-shift stuff as Siti is still
in the midst of fixing up the Real Transect Squares for Saturday.




Laying out the transect line ...



And where to put the transect squares
(apparently NOT as indicated in the photo).




Now we're all ready for the transect!

All about the Sentosa Seagrass Transect.