Sentences with phrase «creek bed»

Flooding the dry creek bed in the playground is analogous to our approach to assessment reform.
Continue on in the shadows of the ranges with a short stop at Copley before turning into the rugged red ranges of the Flinders, pass through the ranges cut by creek beds studded with ancient red gum trees.
You will cover from six to 15 kilometres (four to nine miles) per day over craggy sandstone bluffs and dry creek beds lined with river red gums.
From creek beds to steep rock faces, there isn't much that the Renegade can't handle, even in its compact nature.
In a scene worthy of Bambi, a coyote makes itself scarce just a few hours before fire ravages this dry creek bed on El Toro Marine Base between Los Angeles and San Diego.
and is now available for the first time as Trail Rated 4x4 model that's at home on snow - covered roads or crawling along a rocky creek bed in low range.
From there, we will travel between the Heysen and ABC Range, often referred to as «The Backbone of the Flinders Ranges», through Bunyeroo Valley and into the large tree - lined creek beds of Brachina Gorge, which has been named «The Corridor Through Time» due to the sedimentary layering and uplifting from the period between 520 and 640 million years ago.
Here, surrounded by the arid wasteland of the great salt lakes, you'll discover an ancient seabed that has been sculpted by millions of years of rain and sun into a fractured, furrowed landscape of deep valleys covered with casuarinas and cypress pines which fall into creek beds lined with river red gums.
On the two maps above, you'll see that the project boundaries, from the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River through to the Connors Road footbridge encompass the entire legacy creek bed, with the exception of small areas on the north side of 98th avenue.
When it comes to snaking logs, crossing creek beds, or navigating a washed out access road to get to your campsite, you aren't likely to find a more capable off - road machine than the 4X4 F - 250.
His haunting eyes in the photo taken while he lay in the shallow creek bed immediately and permanently lodged into my heart and mind.
You can explore natural springs, view Aboriginal rock carvings and drive through wide stony creek beds lined with towering Red gums.
That the station for the Muttart Conservatory would be placed on or adjacent to a lost creek bed is, perhaps, an unwelcome irony.
Given the height of both Connors Road and 98th Avenue relative to a re-established creek bed, it is unlikely that major roadwork would be required to complete this project.
Workmen combed creek beds all over the region, looking for the thickest grass to use as outfield turf.
There are no roads in this remote region, so Harmand was forced to drive in dry creek beds while Lewis navigated with a GPS device.
Drought conditions this summer and last generated even more calls as the dry river and creek beds exposed a treasure chest of specimens dislodged during earlier floods.
Researchers found the Lomekwi site by chance after taking a wrong turn along an eroded creek bed.
Hand creek bed or sear immaculate.
The students are now grappling with how to pump the water and how to stop the leakage when they flood the dry creek bed next Science Week.
Students are grappling with how to pump water and how to stop leakage when they flood the dry creek bed [Image: Bialik College].
The canyons, dry wash rivers, sandy creek beds, ditches, and gullies that joined up with the Cap Rock cliff form the graveyard of past Indian civilizations, flying and testing grounds of herds of leather - winged bats, drying grounds of monster - size bones and teeth, roosting, nesting, and the breeding place of the bald - headed big brown eagle.
Drive the Mimbadoggie ring route of approximately 23 kilometres, incorporating steep climbs up hills and descents into historical creek beds, culminating with spectacular views from the Mount Horrocks Summit.
There are several creek bed crossings so make sure to pay attention to the trail.
Geological history will be discovered in absorbing detail at the stunning deep gorges, arid creek beds and rock escarpments.
For a little adventure, there are many areas of the ranch to relax and enjoy, take a walk along the private country pathways and visit the vineyard, the summer garden, the multi-fruit orchard, the barn, the rose garden along the Alamo Pintado creek bed, the chicken house and animal pastures.
Enjoy morning tea en route in a picturesque gum tree flanked creek bed.
A layer of red clay soil seemed to be washing over the entire countryside, roads were flooded and seemingly disintegrating before our eyes, and the off - road trails that our Land Rover hosts had laid out in the dunes and rocky creek beds on the Atlantic coast near Essaouira were challenging enough to require multiple spotters.
Recently upgraded for group or family accommodation, the building overlooks the rocky creek bed and incorporates a large sheltered deck, lawn and barbecue area which provide a great outdoor living environment in the mild spring and autumn weather.
Then we will travel between the Heysen and ABC Range, often referred to as «The Backbone of the Flinders Ranges», through Bunyeroo Valley and into the large tree - lined creek beds of Brachina Gorge which has been named «The Corridor Through Time» due to the sedimentary layering and uplifting from the period between 520 and 640 million years ago.
Edmonton faces a choice with the design and construction of the Valley Line LRT project — either the project can be designed to include or accommodate a future re-animation of the legacy creek bed and delta — which is a provincial priority according to the Environmental Assessment of the Valley Line — or it can render even more permanent the decisions made in the 1960s and 1970s that transportation infrastructure trumps our natural environment.
One of the many highlights of the vast Kimberly region in northwest Australia, the aptly named Tunnel Creek winds for 750m underground along a shallow creek bed.
You reach the auto - drive cut - off switch whilst viewing the jagged rocks in the dry creek bed as they rocket up toward you.
You can explore natural springs, view Aboriginal rock carvings, drive through wide stony creek beds lined with towering Red gums.
For instance, in a Friday evening musing on ways to encourage students, especially girls, to be more involved in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) with Head of Science, Colin Hopkins, I suggested that they flood the dry creek bed on the North Lawn.
The plan was to tear them down and let the land revert to creek bed.
In second grade we explored the creek bed behind my school looking for praying mantis and frogs.
: According to one news report, the 6.0 earthquake reportedly allowed groundwater to surface in dry creek beds and streams.
Back when the Ohlones roamed the oak woodlands of the Santa Clara Valley and long before the area gave way to suburban sprawl, a California bay laurel tree took root near a creek bed in present - day Mountain View.
But it seems that playing in the dirt and mud, whether in the backyard or hiking along a creek bed, might be the perfect antidote.
The view from the surface shows rounded blocks of water ice, like eroded stones in a creek bed.
The light is too weak to reveal fallen trees that fill the dry creek bed we are following, and we keep tripping over them.
In 2011 archaeologists Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University and colleagues took a wrong turn as they followed a creek bed, surveying sites around Lomekwi, near Kenya's Lake Turkana.
When I first started running a few years ago it was back in the Adelaide hills where I could run through the pine forests along a sand horse trail, up and down the hills, along a creek bed and wind up on top of a hill with an incredible panoramic view out to the ocean (albeit, far, far away).
Did you see a lot more water in the creek beds?

Phrases with «creek bed»

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