The pictures here are but a mere third of the entire bus journey I took from Woodlands to Changi Airport.
It's not because there was no scenery to take.
Nor was it because Chonkycam had run out of battery.
But I have a habit of not taking pictures when there're people sitting beside me- I have the feeling they might get uncomfortable- and that's how it was for this bus ride today.
The crowds started boarding somewhere around Yishun, and it didn't take long before the bus became almost completely full.
Of course, then again, Bus 858 is no short route.
If the distance from an estate near the northernmost point to an area near the easternmost point isn't near, the bus route isn't going to be express-style short either.
The journey begins from Woodlands Interchange where from it passes through a couple of Avenues (7, 4,9) before it turns into Gambas Avenue, then back out it comes to Avenue 7.
Now, I can't tell if these pictures are accurate of the Woodlands side, but if I'm not wrong, Gambas Avenue is a sort of industrial place and these last few above are the only industrial-looking ones on the route this afternoon.
What exactly the road is, however, I don't know.
All I know is that from here it turns into Sembawang Road, out onto Canberra Road, back onto Sembawang Road, and then into Yishun.
Here in Yishun it passes Avenue 5, Avenue 2, Yishun Central, back to Yishun Avenue 2 and then onto Lentor Avenue.
The route becomes notably quicker on Lentor Avenue, where with the last bus stop named LP94, Bus 858 then turns onto the SLE, and then the TPE.
There is a quick round in Jln Kayu after that near the (former?) Seletar Camp, and then back out it is onto the TPE.
After this, the bus turns onto the PIE, the ECP and finally, onto Airport Boulevard, and terminating at Basement 3 of Changi Airport.
It's a fascinating route, honestly, where the scenery changes so rapidly in a manner of minutes that you sometimes wonder just how it happens and what it is you're looking at.
I don't mean that one shifts instantly from the rural to the urban or from the crowded to the spacious, but there is a certain type of scenery in the northern parts of the country that you won't find along, for instance, the ECP.
They belong distinctively to the north.
Somewhere along the way however the foliage begins to change.
Somewhere along the way the scenery becomes less forested, more spaced out, less of a land chill, more of a sea breeze.
Maybe the turn's at Lentor Avenue- it is, after all- one of the connectors that separate the northern (forest feel) parts with the central and the east.
Or maybe the turn's at the PIE where, after Jln Kayu (still of former Seletar Air Base forested feels) and the TPE (slightly less forested feels), one gets onto the ECP where, with her proximity to the sea, makes for a much airier feeling, a much more spacious vibe.