Sentences with phrase «swimming off seal»

Poetry Foundation — Family — Josephine Miles — Swimming off Seal Rocks, potato salad, and a helicopter rescue; summer matters from the American poet, 1911 - 1985.

Not exact matches

We walked along the beach, where he chased the waves a little too closely and ended up with soaking wet jeans; visited the Page Museum, where we watched volunteers meticulously dust off newly discovered fossils; stopped for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, where I nearly single - handedly polished off an entire Hula Pie ice cream dessert by myself; meandered out along a pier, where a practically blind seagull almost flew straight into my guy's head; and drove through the rain to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, where we chuckled at the seals in the synchronized swimming routine.

At the center of the story is Lynne Cox, now a renowned long - distance swimmer, but then just a 17 - years - old out for a practice swim early one morning in the waters off Seal Beach in Southern California.

It was early March and I was seventeen years old, swimming two hundred yards offshore, outside the line of breaking waves off Seal Beach, California.

A FUN OUTING IS Boulders Beach — swim with the penguins and spot seals off the rocks then stroll down to the toy museum.

It was the first day of a second lease on life as three young female seals tentatively made their way to the water, stopping to look at those who had come to see them off, and seemingly conferring with each other before swimming into the ocean.

First stop: the fishing town of Kaikoura, to shake off jet lag (try a swim among fur seals).

The chance to swim with Cape fur seals, just off Hout Bay, is a highlight of any visit to the city.

Finally, when the coast was clear, the seal was able to safely swim off to another, more secure ice floe.

To seal this off as a diver's dream: 360 - view of crystal blue water with breathtaking sunsets, shadows of fishes swimming under us, and a pretty darn great house reef.

Finally, Clapper the Seal is an animal buddy that serves two purposes; After jumping on him, he will either cool off a body of lava, allowing Diddy and Dixie to swim in the cooled water, or freeze a pool of extremely cold water into ice, allowing the heroes to walk across it.

What doesn't make sense is: gigantic mega-brained predators patterned like pirate flags who eat everything from sea otters to whales and spend hours batting thousand - pound sea lions into the air specifically to beat them up before drowning and shredding them; who wash seals off ice and crush porpoises and slurp swimming deer and moose — indeed, seemingly any mammal they come across in the water; yet who have never so much as upended a single kayak and who appear — maybe — to bring lost dogs home.