coney island (pulau serangoon) used to be a popular island retreat for weekenders. it was also popular with water skiiers when punggol boatel was nearby. today, it looks like a restricted place - hardly anybody goes there. in my 3-year old street directory, there are planned roads linking coney island to the mainland. there is also a network of roads planned for the 50-hectare island.
today, i went down to punggol east to check if any development had taken place. i found out that the whole thing was still in its planning stage. i walked along the coast to the right of the jetty until i could see coney island. it's only about 100m from the mainland. in the past, coney island was quite bare but today it appears to be covered by a luxuriant growth of greenery.
i do not know if any land reclamation had taken place. this was supposed to double the size of the island. there are plans to build three bridges to link it to the mainland, one solely for pedestrians and the other two to carry both vehicular and human traffic.
when we first started teaching in the early 70s, we would canoe from pasir ris - where our canoes/sampans were stored - to frog island and to coney island. after our picnic, we would paddle back to pasir ris.
as i strolled along the rocky coastline of punggol, i came across this snail on the wall of a drain. it does not look like a land snail. wonder if it is a sea snail or some aquatic snail.
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