East Coast

The lighthouse is located on top of a 26-storey condominium at Lagoon View Block 5000L

Singapore's first automated, unmanned lighthouse, Bedok lighthouse stands at 76 metres above sea level. It cost $225,000 and was a replacement for the Fullerton Lighthouse on top of Fullerton Building, which would be obscured by high-rise buildings in what is now the Marina Bay area.[2]

Every lighthouse has its own light flashing characteristic: The light characteristic shown is one white flash every 5 seconds (Fl.W. 5s) visible for 20 nautical miles. It can be observed visually as a "red concrete cubicle".

Used for navigation and to report traffic coordinates

Helps with air traffic too because it's so obvious from the sky.

The lighthouse's 600,000-candle beam flashes every five seconds, and is said to be visible up to 42km away.

Aside from the lighthouse at Bedok, five more remain active and are located at offshore islands — Horsburgh Lighthouse, Pulau Pisang Lighthouse, Sultan Shoal Lighthouse and Raffles Lighthouse.

Land reclamation: Singapore's land area has expanded by a whopping 25 percent since colonial times: From 580 to 720 square km.

The five towers of the Marina Bay Financial Center, Marina Bay Sands Gardens by the Bay are all built on reclaimed land; so is an assortment of parks, wharves and a coastal highway. Beach Road, in the island’s belly, at one time had a self-evident name; now it reads like a wry joke, given how much new land separates it from the ocean. Most of Singapore’s Changi Airport sits on earth where there was once only water

East Coast was built mostly with sand from Tampines, most of the craters are filled up now, except for one, Bedok Reservoir

Several countries have tired of feeding Singapore’s endless appetite for sand; Indonesia, Malaysia and, most recently, Cambodia have halted exports altogether. These bans have affected some of Singapore’s reclamation schedules, David Tan said, although he insisted that the supply lines from Myanmar were “still robust.” In any case, Singapore is trying to shrink its reliance on sand imports. “We do a lot of tunneling work for the subway, so that material goes into reclamation,

As the ocean grows less shallow, it becomes harder and harder to build the wall, to stabilize the infill, to protect it all from collapse. “We’re already reclaiming in water that is 20 meters deep,” Tan said. “Maybe it would be viable to reclaim in 30 meters, if land prices go up. But 40 and 50 meters would be very difficult. It’s physically difficult and economically unviable.”

Singapore holds a strategic sand reserve, for emergencies. It lies somewhere in the area called Bedok

Breakwater along east coast beach is built to protect the artificial beach, if not, it will erodes away.

In recent years, Singapore has turned to a Dutch reclamation method called empoldering (building a seawall and pumping the water out) that can save 40 per cent in sand volume and construction costs, said Mr Wong, The method is being used in Pulau Tekong, which is set to grow by 810 ha, or the size or Toa Payoh, by 2022. The added land will be used for military training, freeing up space on the mainland - in Tengah - for housing.

HDB are usually 99-year lease—so no one really owns the place, we return it to the government after that at zero value

To prevent that, the government usually buys the HDB back before the lease expires

HDB are a representation of the Singapore demographic population. 75% Chinese 15% Malays and 10% Indians and others.

If you’re Chinese and your block runs out of your race ballot, you can’t buy a unit there anymore. This prevents ethic clusters like a Malay town or little Vietnam from appearing.

More than 80% of Singaporean and PRs stays in HDB government public housing. It is still the cheapest housing option in Singapore. The most expensive ones we transacted at over 1 million SGD recently.

The 250-metre-long, concrete jetty was once the longest public jetty in Singapore before losing out the title to the new Woodlands Waterfront Jetty. Despite its name, it's actually located at East Coast Park, by the East Coast Lagoon Food Village.

The jetty was originally built in the 1960s as a private dock for a local business named Yap Swee Hong who was running a business importing scrap metal from the Americans. It was later taken over by the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) as a military base for exercises as well as international humanitarian missions including the Operation Thunderstorm of 1975.

The jetty is now opened to the public and is popular among anglers, joggers, and cyclists. With the sea, the jetty makes quite a romantic spot for couples to take a relaxing stroll.

80 kg Honeycomb Whip Ray landed on 30-07-2020

Dolphin and Shovel-nose Sharks have been caught there too.

Very popular place for light game fishing (Aji)

Use Bedok Jetty to talk about Fishing Pressure, When fishing Pressure is zero during Circuit Breaker, the fishes all returned to the jetty. When is reopened, the fishes there were wiped out again.

Come to east coat park during the new year day countdown to witness a one of a kind fireworks show

Gun flares and pop flare that are expiring are going to expired will be fired into the air to create a spectacular red firework show

Bad night to spring a leak or be in any form of real emergency

It comes from the fact that expired flares are hard to get rid of in Singapore due to explosives laws

The choices here are mind-boggling, so when in doubt, join the queues at Hwa Kee BBQ Pork Noodle for, well, just that; Cheok Kee Duck Rice for the duck braised in a thick soy-based sauce and served with rice studded with taro; or Song Kee Fried Oyster for gooey omelettes strewn with small local oysters and served with a vinegar-spiked chilli sauce. Also order a couple of sticks of satay—best dipped in a delicious peanut sauce—from Haron Satay.

Lagoon Carrot Cake is one of the many famous stalls at East Coast Lagoon Food Village that not only peddles carrot cake but popiah as well.

Ah Hwee BBQ Chicken, It would be remiss if you didn’t have some sort of barbecued food when at East Coast beach and chicken wings from Ah Wee BBQ Chicken are a must-have.

With a name like Stingray Forever BBQ Seafood, the sambal stingray better be good.

Located along the beach near carpark B1, it is the park's last boat storage facility.

From the 1970s till 2007, the National Parks Board (NParks) offered four such facilities at subsidised rates to fishermen who had been affected by resettlement.

Today, the only one remaining - about the size of half a football field - houses 35 NParks-registered boats owned by fishermen. Only boat owners who fish for a living may apply to use the facility.

Real commercial fishing is done in Malaysia and Indonesia (accounts 90% of the fishes imported to Singapore) - Visit Jurong Fishery Port at 12 midnight to witness the cargo coming in and the live auctions.

Most of the time, customers come here and collect their orders at the beach," said Mr Lim Ah Ping, 65, a semi-retired fisherman.

Kee adds that his customers are have been buying from him for seven to eight years, with some even buying from him for over the past decade.

He adds that, "Once you've tasted fish from here, the fish you get from the market would taste different to you."

Which makes the last boat storage facility at East Coast, near carpark B1, a fish market with potentially the freshest fish you can find.

The Amber Beacon Tower is coated in a bright yellow paint and shaped like a beacon/lighthouse to warn ships that they are close to the shores

Amber Beacon Tower is said to be named after the nearby “Amber area” which consist of Amber Close, Amber Garden, and Amber Road. The area is said to be named after the Amber Trust Fund which was established by Serena Elias to help poor Jewish youths in Singapore further their studies.

The yellow tower at East Coast Park is another viewing deck that has earned a bad rep. A couple was out for a stroll one night, ascending Amber Beacon Tower, when they were assaulted. The young man was stabbed in the back, while his lovely date was wounded at the neck. He survived, but she didn’t.

More than 20 years later, the perpetrators still haven’t been caught and no answers have come from the young man who lived. Park-goers tell of a female figure who lurks in the area of Amber Beacon, and some even hear the echoes of stray cries for help.

Two years later in 1992, the family of Tan Ah Hong offered a $30,000 reward for any information relating to the assailants. The family also made a public appearance on Crime Watch, a popular crime investigation show, appealing for anyone who has information about the murders to report to the police.

Since the incident, it is said that Amber Beacon tower is haunted by a female apparition dressed in white. Many who jog past the tower at the time of the attack reportedly hear wailing sound at the top. Others who have heard screams of help found nothing when they searched the tower.

Those who visited the tower at night are said to have seen droplets of fresh bloodstain on the steps.

Breakwater is another measure of coastal protection. Breakwaters are strutures, which usually made of granite, built parallel to the coast but off shore.

Breakwater creates a zone of shallow water between itself and the coast, so that waves will break against it before reaching the coast. Thus as the waves reach the coast line, the waves energy will be largly reduced by the breakwaters thereby protect the coast from erosion. Thus it is an effective measuere of coastal protection.

In the other hand, breakwaters are expensive to build, the cost of each breakwater is estimated to be around S$1 million, hence some less developed countries may be unable to afford it. Secondly, breakwaters are unable to provide complete protection due to the gaps between it and the coast. Thus erosion may still occur.