Sentences with phrase «as rocky reefs»

This is a five - mile section of very nice beach, with stretches of sand as well as rocky reefs that are uncovered at low tide.

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Tropical white - spotted dolphins frolic at the bow of our catamaran, octopus and colourful fishes nibble at the rocky non-coral reef, as my back unwittingly gets roasted.

Animals with such shells somehow use brittle, crumbly chalk (known formally as calcium carbonate) to build armor that can protect them along unforgiving reefs and rocky shorelines.

Instead, acidification instigates an attraction to unfamiliar sounds (temperate rocky reefs) as well as artificially generated sounds (white noise), both of which were ignored by fish living in current day conditions.

Inshore water exposed to open ocean conditions contains numerous islets and rocky reefs, as well as channels partly bounded and protected by land.

What makes it special is the presence of a massive headland along this part of the coast that bends the winds into an offshore direction, cleaning up swells that are often overpowering and crossed up elsewhere, as well as a very indented rocky coastline with many rock and sand points, reefs and quality beachbreaks tucked in.

Some kelps form dense patches on rocky reefs resembling a forest of trees underwater and are referred to as kelp forests.

Just south is the Piedras Blancas (meaning «white rocks») beach, where the 110 ′ Piedras Blanca Lighthouse, built in 1874, still stands as a beacon warning boaters and fishermen of the perilous reefs and rocky shores.

Channelkeeper is also supporting biological monitoring of nearshore underwater habitats such as kelp forests and rocky reefs in partnership with scientists from UCSB to track how fish populations and marine communities associated with these habitats respond over time to the protection provided by MPAs.

is an inshore rocky reef in the marine protected area known as Castle Rock, near Miller's Point.

There are four types of diving environments in the archipelago: first are the shallow inshore fringing island reefs where visibility is often poor but the diversity of marine life is unsurpassed; second are the offshore fringing reefs where the visibility is considerably better, and the coral much healthier; third are the pinnacles and small rocky islands which rise from the depths and attract larger marine life such as sharks and rays; and fourth are the banks which rise up from depths of over 300 meters and attract different types of marine life altogether.

The dive started with reef shark, then bull ray, and Cowtail Stingray as we worked our way along the small pieces of rocky reef on the sandy bottom.

But as Exxon knows through the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which the oil tanker veered off course into a rocky reef while trying to avoid small icebergs in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, the presence of even a little ice makes navigation treacherous.