Singapore: PSA

Today we visited PSA,  the Port Singapore Authority. [Side bar: on our way there, we drove past a golf course. Because land is so outrageously expensive in Singapore, I asked about whether golf was a big pastime or not. Apparently the standing joke is that it is cheaper to fly to Australia and golf there than it is to actually just golf in Singapore. So it remains a hobby of more wealthy people.] This port is either number one or number two in the world (depending on what stats you look at, it flips between the two) and sees nearly 1/5 of all global transaction volumes.  The port is build on reclaimed land (read: boatloads of sand are imported from Indonesia and dropped in the water to expand the size of Singapore) and it is hard to convey in pictures how big it was.

Our brief tour was prefaced with a quick presentation on the 40th floor of the PSA building. The weather was perfect and the views were amazing. In this first shot, we could actually see Indonesia.