Thanks for the update. If anyone can walk on the spit between the fences, or between the fence and the water, then what is the fence suppose to achieve? It's good to know that one can get around the fence because photography of waterfowl in the marina bay requires both getting close to the water level and having the sun behind the camera and unto the subject(s). Still, it means you can't just approach the water, either the north side or the south side, just anywhere a subject might present itself, but instead makes it necessary to embrace one side or the other beforehand. No fence-sitting. That's all we need ... another polarizing influence. I guess most of the marina bay ice is now melted.