The aim of our group in doing this project and producing this website is none other then to create awareness among the public of the offshore islands of Singapore. This has been stressed throughout the course of doing this project, but what do we actually mean by ‘create awareness’?

Initially, when we first started out on this project, ‘create awareness’ meant that we had to inform the public that Singapore has many other less known offshore islands, not only Sentosa and Pulau Ubin, which are easily the most well-known.

Hence, we administered a survey to find out which islands the public do not know of, or have not visited, or are most interested to know of. This would help us to narrow down the broad topic of Offshore Singapore. When the results came back, we realised that although most of the people know that about Sentosa, they do not know what attractions are on the island, with the new developments coming fast and quick in recent years. We also found out that many people have not visited Pulau Ubin. This proved that our assumption was wrong and that people were also not very ‘aware’ of Sentosa and Pulau Ubin.

After finding out which islands were accessible and the prices, combined with the survey results, discussions were held and the group finally decided to concentrate on 4 islands, mainly Sentosa, Pulau Ubin, Kusu Island and St John’s island, all of which we were visiting. Although Sisters Island, Lazarus Island and Pulau Hantu were also accessible via a launch from Clifford Pier, due to financial constraints, we were unable to arrange trips to them.

Therefore, our definition of ‘create awareness’ was greatly changed. Now, our aim was to tell people about the history of Singapore’s offshore islands, what were on the islands, and what the visitors thought about the island.

To do this, we had to visit the islands, research on them, and write in-depth reports and analysis to provide such information to the public.