Sentences with phrase «boats ply»

Water taxis - These really should be called «water buses,» since these boats ply regular routes — the Chao Phraya River and the city's canals (klongs).

Watch boats ply the harbor from the sleek sectional in the sitting area or the glass - topped table in the dining area — both of which can be opened to the terrace via wide sliding doors.

Boats plied the waters, but most other human activity was hidden under a thick layer of rainforest vegetation.

We had requested a quiet seaview bungalow (deluxe), and Sensi Paradise gave us an almost full - on view of longtail boats plying the bay in front.

The shipwrecks reflect the local maritime history that has seen boats plying between the mainland and the island for more than 100 years.

A 60 Minutes report in May provided a helpful fresh look at the challenging realities on the waters off San Felipe, the Mexican town where many of the fishing boats plying the vaquita's habitat are based.

Not exact matches

«The results of our survey research demonstrate beyond a doubt that setting a reasonable tax basis for high dollar purchases provides an incentive for more boats to be purchased, provisioned and kept plying the waters of Florida,» FYBA spokesman Jeff Erdmann, owner of Bollman Yachts of Fort Lauderdale, said in a statement.

The museum ran a whale - watching boat that plied the waters between Long Beach and the Channel Islands, searching for gray whales on their way from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to their calving shoals in Baja California Sur in Mexico.

Although the Isle Royale boat is almost toy - sized compared with the freighters that ply the Great Lakes, Green contends the relatively simple chlorine treatment could be scaled up to the biggest boats on the lakes as an emergency line of defense that would be far stouter than the saltwater flushing — the only protection for the lakes until ballast treatment systems are required for all overseas ships, which likely won't be until 2021 at the earliest.

As a child in Belém, Brazil, Carlos Peres would watch boats heaped with Brazil nuts plying the Amazon River.

In person, tourists ply the water on small - boat excursions as hundreds of whales puff their blowholes and pop up to say hello.

Nor was there any shortage of the stuff: of the 2,000 fishing boats registered on Phu Quoc, at least half ply the squid trade.

From the unashamedly touristic gondolas of Venice to the more rustic riverboats that ply the Amazon, these boat rides are guaranteed to add a splash of excitement to your next family holiday More

The ancestors of these crude, yet exquisitely crafted boats have plied the waters around Zanzibar for thousands of years.

Destination Editor Megan Eaves reports from the Hong Kong Dragon Boat festival — a series of colourful boat races where teams of paddlers ply the waters against a backdrop of city skyscrapers.

Boats regularly ply the waters to Isla Del Sol, where you can immerse yourself in quiet island life and watch the sun rise in the same spot where — according to local lore — it first rose thousands of years ago.

This boat departs from the port of Halong City and plies its route through the karst peaks of Halong Bay during their journey and overnight stay on the water.

We loved the public boats that plied the shore, which we would hail from the dock for dining or sightseeing runs into Panajachel.

The boat spends half the year in west Sumatra running surf charters and the other half of the year it plies the waters of Irian Jaya taking divers to some of the best dive spots on the planet.

The temperature is perfect, the breeze is ruffling the coconut fronds, the clean sand and intensely blue sea are right at hand, the island of Lāna`i casts its long dome on the horizon, and boats of every description ply the channel.

Troll boats and gillnetters plied the swift waters.

Watch fisherman plying the waters in colorful boats, enjoy lunch in the shade of star apple trees, and bite into fresh dragon fruit while chatting with local farmers.

Whether spotting toucan, manatee and jaguarondi while plying the waterways by boat or exploring ancient Maya temples on foot, experience a secluded world that few are fortunate enough to see.

The King Cruiser was a ferry boat that plied the route between Phi Phi and Phuket.

In Argenteuil he converted a boat into a studio and plied the Seine as far as Rouen, so as to capture the various subtle variations of atmosphere (Coasting Lugger at Anchor, Musee d'Orsay).

In its stead, there will be starving wet survivors on the run to high ground and Jeff Jacoby's boats happily puttering along plying their wares to people who died below the water line before the good news about climate change could properly cheer them.