The other reason why the date I picked turned out to be crappy was because the Centre’s star attractions, the Observatory and Theatre, were booked up that day for a private functon by the NHS (of all organisations to annoy me… at least it wasn’t BT). The Observatory, also known as the Bird Airport, is a glass viewing area where the entire nature reserve is visible and opens out in front of you, and the theatre is home to a informational film about wetlands which I think I would have liked to see and which would’ve very much enhanced my understanding of everything else going on there.
That said, there was still the Discovery Museum open. This is an indoor museum aimed for kids, but I’m still unashamedly in love with colourful kid museums, so this wasn’t a problem.
To be honest, I had no idea before coming here. The officially accepted technical definition is given as article 1.1 in this Wikipedia entry.
A really pretty bit of painted scenery. And… a very large fish.
ACTUAL FROGSPAWN. Okay, I’m a city bumpkin. And even though we had a huge drain in the backyard of the house where I grew up, I’ve never actually seen frogspawn like this. I had no idea that you could see them wriggling in the little bulgy translucent sacs. I was fascinated and slack-jawed in front of this tank for ridiculously eons. I should have taken a video.
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Ah. I’ve nver saw frogspawn before either – somehow I’ve only seen toad eggs (those stringy ones) previously.
i don’t think i’ve ever seen toad eggs! i shall go google image it… but yeah frogspawn is really strangely hypnotic. O__O
toad spawn is completely bizarre!! :OOO
We used to have a metal trough in our back balcony where my dad tried to turn into a rudimentary lily pond. The only thing it did was attract toads by the truckload, to the point where they were keeping us awake at night. And of course, next morning we found TONS of toadspawn. Ick.
ewww. so does singapore just abound with toadspawn rather than frogspawn? that’s gross…
hey yeah I had the same problem with a fish pond too! for awhile i was part-timing as a toad-catcher (although i’d erroneously labelled them as frogs back then).