Sentences with phrase «canoe into»

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!
This includes exploring by canoe into the cave of Barton Creek as sailing trips to the most attractive diving areas.
The hunters maneuver the canoes into a U-shape around the dolphins, using sound as an acoustic barrier to drive them toward shore where they are killed.
We also took out canoes into the middle of the lake to do some bird watching, which was particularly alluring to me.
Trellised with streams and rivers, the forests are best accessed with a paddle, so early one morning Smalling and I slipped canoes into North Carolina's Gardner Creek, a serpentine ribbon of water that winds through private forests adjacent to the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge.

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«Spirit Lodge» captivated audiences with scenes of an aged Indian storyteller recounting the legend of a magic canoe that could transform the initiated believer (thanks to cameras and holographic expertise) into a different time and space.
Had I sat for hours in the same canoe, watching many leaves fall into the silent current, I might never have connected those three things — the descending leaf, the joining reflection, and the moment in which they precisely met.
«I went to the Philippines and spoke to the fisherman who told me they go out into the ocean with about 13 small canoe boats on one main boat.
I find that the best way to enjoy potato skins is to take all the pulp from the potatoes and mix that up with sour cream, butter, bacon etc, the put it back into the potato «canoe» as I call them before that last bake - basically a potato skin filled with mashed potatoes and topped with chives and sour cream!
I placed small amounts of batter into a muffin top pan and into a cream - canoe pan to make hamburger and hot dog buns, and sprinkled the tops with a bit more cheddar.
Some have estimated that 3 to 6 tons of sea salt per day had to be transported by canoe and on human backs into the interior to supply the Mayan people whose population then is estimated to have been greater than the population of the same region today.
The venue of the Canoe Sprint competition welcomed nine athletes for their official selection into Our Greatest Team.
Canoes, rowboats, kayaks, crew boats and sailboats can fit into the storage unit.
But children looking for sports activities without the competition may want to look into non-competitive or individualized activities such as biking, hiking, fencing, shooting, canoeing, aerobics, fishing, and karate.
Hiking, canoeing, walking, or going to a gym might be things he'll keep doing well into adulthood.
Take in your museum outings in the morning, then seamlessly flow into afternoon adventures: canoeing the Chicago River, biking the lakefront, exploring Millennium Park and Maggie Daley Park and, perhaps, a food walking tour.
Finally, last week we tossed a new site into the water to help a woman who's canoeing up the U.S. east coast from Miami to Maine to highlight ocean conservation.
We have improved our Parks Department by building a canoe and kayak launch, taking a 60 acre landfill and turning it into a beautiful park.
------------------------------- The General Clinton Canoe Regatta Music festival moves into its 9th year with a new sponsor, Michelob Ultra and the United Way of Delaware Otsego Counties.
The Buffalo River was a summer recreation hotspot Thursday, as a cruise boat carried a crowd celebrating 25 years of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, a key agency in turning a one - time industrial sewer into a waterway with kayaks, canoes, motorboats and sailboats.
The researchers are now taking into account new parameters such as altitude or wind effect to improve their mathematical model, so that it can be applied to other sports such as cycling, swimming or canoeing.
One bird, however, parachutes directly into our canoe.
Canals and creeks penetrate into many neighborhoods, and home sale listings highlight water access - «Within 50 feet of H2O - You can canoe and kayak!».
The researchers traveled by canoe upriver into the Amazon to study the diet and health of the Matses community, who are among the last hunter - gatherers in the world; they still hunt monkey, sloth, alligator, and other game, as well as gather wild tubers in the forest and fish in the rivers.
Three rain - gear - clad scientists crammed into a canoe and quietly paddled across a Guinness - colored lake.
They've jumped into their bass boats, their canoes and their jet skis, their dune buggies and their trucks, and they've set off to help people they've never met before — often responding to requests for help posted on social media.
About 3 hours into our date, one speed boat past by us in one direction, while another sped by on the other side of the canoe in the opposite direction causing turbulent water.
Hi, im Jenny, I love meeting men of any age I live in the beautiful area of 49 Canoe Square SW Airdrie, Alberta T4B 2N5, Canada No chat, im just into meeting new people and need some company at home since i work from hom..
The lovers are Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), two kids who run away into the wilderness in a stolen canoe to eat jerky and play Francoise Hardy records.
Taking small - town America as his usual backdrop, the director enlivens his settings with details such as a tracking shot down quiet residential lanes where teens fling papers off of dented pick - ups at dawn, or a view of canoes pushing off into mist - shrouded lakes at dusk.
Smith, his canoe swamped by Crockett's princeling son Clint (Adam Roarke), gets taken into the family bosom to flirt with Clint's sister Karen (Joan Van Ark) and to homoerotically bond with Clint over high - school football.
Benicio del Toro's Sicario is set loose in Mexico, Robert Pattinson rides off into the sunset and Robert Redford breaks out of Alcatraz in a canoe
The box, a virtual reality viewer that turned my iPhone into an immersive TV, let me watch Oleg play among the rubble of his village, follow Hana through cucumber fields as she and her cousins worked as day pickers, and ride in Chuol's narrow canoe as he navigated swamps to an secluded island where his grandmother and he have been hiding.
A nonprofit organization, Carving Culture Connections (CCC), founded by Peele, secured a 6 - ton cedar log from Alaska and monitored every step of the three - year - long process of transforming it into a traditional voyaging canoe.
Have students read, draw maps, make wagon and canoe models and write what it would be like to be sent into unknown territory.
On the plus side of the ledger, the Xterra offers just about all the cargo room and carrying capacity you'll ever need for people, camping gear, mountain bikes, canoes or whatever you might want to drag into the woods.
Junior, Talloi, and I jumped into a canoe and sadly waved to our friends as the canoe pulled away from the shores of Mattru Jong.
The cats love to go out and climb trees, or follow us around while we work, and Tater even loves to get into the canoe and go fishing with my husband.
Big Canoe Rescue is a community - based no kill canine rescue that seeks to provide rescued animals with a safe, healthy, and positive environment until they are adopted into new and loving forever homes.
Row your way into an adventure on our British Columbia canoe trips.
Highlights include tracking jaguars by dugout canoe in Guyana, tracking orangutan in eastern Sabah, backpacking round Japan, and being part of the first team of husky mushers to cross from Finland into Russia.
Settle into a remote bush camp in the Okavango Delta and explore wildlife - rich waterways by dugout canoe.
But if you're on the hunt for something a little less touristy and a bit more off the beaten track, then head out into the bush for a few days of camping and canoeing at Gagaju Bush Camp.
Canoe & Kayak: «Into the Raincoast - Mothership Touring the Wilds of BC's Rugged Central Coast» (PDF)- March, 2010 Thanks to Canoe & Kayak Magazine.
It was thousands of years before outrigger canoe racing became a competitive sport and canoes evolved into the sleek racing boats we see today all around Kauai, Hawaii and the world.
Wear a headlight and climb into a canoe, and get excited for the opportunity to admire the glittering cave from the inside like few people in the world will ever have the chance to do.
Head into the clear blue waters for a host of water sports, like snorkeling and canoeing.
Tip: For now, if you're looking to rent a boat or boating equipment, like kayaks or canoes, you'll have to plan on your way into the area by stopping at one of the larger cities or rental places along the way and bringing it with you the rest of the way.
Along the back wall of the sitting room, an ancient canoe has been topped with glass and transformed into a 6m - long table; a stunning centrepiece for a buffet dinner.
Meet the San Bushmen on the fringes of the Kalahari Desert, get into the wild with dugout canoe rides and wilderness camping in the Okavango Delta, cruise the Chobe River at sunset, view the mighty...
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