Adventure Heritage
& Environmental Trail 

1. Shrine located in the middle of a cavern formed out of boulders 

   •  Popular with worshippers who got there by boat 

2. Forest Fire in 2014 

   • Fire started during a dry & hot season 

   • By 23 August 2014, One hundred trees were planted

   • Different projects to help with the reforestation 

     • The Ubin Project: (August 2014) 

     • Project I-sland A Hand (PIAH): (November 2015 & March 2017)

3. As part of national efforts in ensuring we are a green city

2. • • One Million Tree Movement

1. Remnants of an old estate can be found here including the base of buildings and a communal fire pit which is often mistaken as a well. 

2. Rubber trees are common in this area and it is easy to spot rubber pods on the ground.

   • Spotting a rubber tree & Its fruits 

   • Latex (Uses and harvesting methods)

   • Rise of automobile industry & rubber plantations 

3. Sustainable Singapore 

• Rubber Plantation is proof that Singapore is able to grow crops 

• 3 Food baskets 

• Trash and marine debris (and what we can do about it)

1. These shrines appear in two clusters, one near the shoreline and another slightly up the slope on the crevice of a hillock. 

   • Various deities, prayed to for different purposes

   • Learn more about the Chinese Pantheon of Deities here.

1. Mdm Goh's Tomb 

   • She used to live in a nearby estate and was buried here after her death. 

   • Every year during Qing Ming Festival, her family writes in to OBS to seek permission to sweep the tomb and to give a fresh coat of paint to the words. 

   • Different types of graves and its tombstones engravings 

2. OBS Reservoir 

   • Water story 

   • 4 National Taps 

1. Rubber Press Machine

   • The shape and location of this machine suggests that it used to be a rubber press to compress processed rubber latex into sheets for ease of transport and sales. 

   • The large rectangular slab is likely a platform to distribute its weight over a larger surface area. 

   • Rubber processing  

1. Old Water Well 

   • Fresh water sources 

   • How does a well function?

2. Different types of ground erosion 

   • Its affects on water sources & supply 

1. Concrete platforms that shows the perimeter of the house and its different parts (along with other items such as broken ceramics and a well) - All of which indicates a house being built 

   •  Chinese VS Malay houses (differences)\

2. Sustainable Living 

   • HDB Green Print Program

   • HDB Green Towns Program 

1. Ammunition Storages (that looks like outhouses/toilets)

   • Believed to used for granite mining in the nearby quarries. 

   • Since these are hazardous items, the structures are very strong.

   •  Now abandoned, they are homes to bats (Different types of bats)

Watch clip of bats found in abandoned buildings in Ubin such as these.

1. The area used for rock climbing and abseiling activities used to be on natural granite wall.

   • History of Granite

   • Uses of granite & the impacts it has on the environment 

2. Sustainable Construction in Singapore