Looking up at its vertiginous cliffs from the foaming sea is overwhelming: rolling banks of sea mist tumble down from the slopes of the interior and birds wheel overhead.

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In the clubhouse, in a room overlooking surf rolling in from the Tasman Sea, walls are adorned with black-and-white pictures celebrating beach marching in its heyday.

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Apart from collecting prenatal pottery pieces (there seems to be no restriction against it), locals and tourists can enjoy a refreshing swim in the rolling, blue waves of the Black Sea -- so called for the colour of its deep waters densely populated with algae.

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Both the Serapong and the Tanjong courses are 18-hole masterpieces carved out of lush tropical flora and mangrove swamps that have been beautifully transformed into rolling hills and challenging greens looking out onto the Singapore Harbor or South China Sea, depending on the hole.

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