On 30 Apr 2006, the Blue Water Volunteers celebrated their 1000th visitor to Kusu Island’s ReefWalk! It’s especially special because this is the 14th public ReefWalk and… BWV was formed on the 14th of February, 2004! and ReefWalk on the 14th of November

This is a significant milestone for the BWV, as we are still new, young (at least at heart), and of course still a lot to learn. Not to mention that all volunteers have their own full time commitment, be it in work, study, family etc. Having guided more than 1000 people to the reef in their backyard, in less than 1.5 year, is definitely something worth cheering for. It also shows how much people love us
Of course these can never been done without the support of our very own volunteers. Commemorating our 1000th visitor rewards the effort and countless hours you put into training, meeting, preparation, emailing, etc. to make all these happened. And most importantly, it acknowledges our passion, faith, and whatever we’ve done for what we love…

Special thanks must also go to our sponsors WildSingapore and PADI-AWARE. Without their funding, we would not achieved our primary objective, which is to raise public awareness on the marine environment of Singapore, and produce a cool breed of guides, who manage to translate complicated facts into digestible information for their laymen visitors, as well as making learning fun and exciting.

To sum up this post, let’s see what some of our visitors said:

“It has been a really intriguing and enriching experience! Thanks for organising and look forward to more“, Ying Ying (the 1000th RW visitor
“WOW! Seeing coral without diving - great, awesome!“, Ranee

“This is an excellent walk! Well worth the ‘waking up at an unearthly hour’! It’s amazing how much nature & marine life exists in S’pore. Thank you for organising the walk“, Seetha

“Thanks for bring alive a seemingly dead place! We had fun!“, Ber Luen & Gwen

Well.. We thank you all for your support!

*Akan datang* Look out for the personal account of this special walk from Papa Jeff, the papa of BWV and RW.

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Yes, BWV reef guides were out once more at Kusu Island on 29 April 2006 with a group of 24 teachers and their families from St Anthony’s Primary. The school had asked BWV to organise the reef work as one of the activities of the school’s Science Department’ s ‘Environmental Awareness Through Care and Protection’ project this year.

It was great to be with these enthusiastic teachers who decided that at least for that morning, they’re on the listening end of the talk. Besides the usual marine life found at Kusu, this time we saw an exceptional number of Portunus pelagicus a.k.a. Flower crabs. However, none of the crabs are for picking.

Well, we didn’t spot any dugongs during the walk. Dugongs were previously common and there were some encounters in local waters. But we’re hopeful that with increasing environmental awareness and polution controls, some will take permanent residence one day the waters off our Southen Islands.

We also had a group