Sunday @ East Coast Park

Most Sunday mornings you can find me at East Coast Park taking a long walk.  East Coast Park is about a 8 km path right along the...wait for it...Eastern coast of Singapore.  There is beach along most of the path and some nice wide trails to allow for runners, walkers, roller-blading, and biking.  It is typically just locals who go to get away from the craziness of the city and to enjoy a teeny tiny bit of a beach-type setting.

I enjoy it because on a Sunday morning there are very few tourists there.  And to be honest, most of the people who are out there are exercising so there is the courtesy that comes along with being around a bunch of other people focused on their workout.  There also tend to be quite a few families and I love seeing families out and about and especially children who are outside...

I'll digress a bit here but when I was a kid we were outside from the morning until night.  We would have stayed out even later but the rule in our neighborhood was that if the street lights came on you were supposed to be home.  We played random sports, made up our own games, rode bikes, ran around, dug in the dirt, and who the heck knows what else.  I'm not sure I would have survived as a kid these days because I just loved being outside.  I still do.  I'll take a walk outside over sitting in front of the computer or television any day of the week.

The other fun thing that you see off of East Coast Park are all of the giant shipping vessels...

Singapore used to be the largest shipping port in Asia but has recently been surpassed by Shanghai.  Regardless, at any given time you will find hundreds of ships off the coast of Singers.  There are so many that when you fly in to Singapore at night the ships actually look like the lights of a city so it is hard to tell when you are over the water versus being over land.

Yesterday was a good walk because it was a bit breezy and there wasn't too much sun...as you can see from the clouds.  The rain stayed offshore so we stayed dry which was nice.

So...were you an outside kid?  If so, what was your favorite thing to do?  In the past week I have been reminded of the 'green machine' and ice cream trucks...bring back any memories?