Sentences with phrase «first saw the island»

When I first saw the island from a distance I was immediately happy that we had chosen to spend a little more money to forego a more traditional campground.

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When I spent 14 days surfing on the island of Nias in Indonesia, I was the only American and probably the first blonde kid the locals had ever seen.

Last year, Giustra's friend and fellow philanthropist Amed Khan convinced him to visit Greece to see first - hand the plight of Syrians crossing the waters between Turkey and Greece to reach the island of Lesbos.

Ortega was also instrumental in coordinating Pope John Paul II's historic visit to the island in 1998 when crowds of adoring Cubans turned out to see the first pope come to their country.

Seeing my dad for the first time, standing with a tour group of older women who refused to leave the island until they «saw the bride».

The staging of the competition, which has seen three 1 - 1 draws in its first four matches after a stalemate between Tunisia and the Cape Verde Islands in the final game of the day, results that have indicated the competition could be wide open.

Last month saw the first large - scale concert on Northerly Island when the reconfigured FirstMerit Bank Pavilion hosted upwards of 30,000 attendees for the June 29 Jimmy Buffett concert.

The first major poll in the race between U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm and his challenger Domenic Recchia showed the incumbent clinging to a slim four - point lead among likely voters in the 11th Congressional District (Brooklyn - Staten Island), but both sides said they see a silver lining buried within the numbers.

However, when asked the generic question of whether they would prefer DiNapoli or someone else, only 23 percent said they'd like to see the former Long Island assemblyman elected statewide for the first time, while 31 percent opted for the anonymous «other» candidate.

«All Republicans want to see our party hold the State Senate majority in Albany and elect a Republican congressman in the First District of Long Island,» Pataki said in a statement this morning.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

It is the first time coconut crabs have been seen actively hunting large animals, and suggests they rule their island homes.

«When we first saw this, our mouths just dropped,» says mission member Peter Schultz of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

Charlie had seen his first patch of coral bleaching off the Great Barrier Reef's Palm Island in the early 1980s, a tiny clump of white skeleton that he photographed as a curio.

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

Lead author Dr Steve Roberts from BAS says: «When we first examined the sediment cores we were struck by the intense smell of the guano in some layers and we could also clearly see the volcanic ash layers from nearby Deception Island.

University of Oslo immunologist Erik Thorsby first began analyzing the people of Easter Island in 1971 to see if he and colleagues could detect traces of an early contribution of Native Americans to Polynesians.

Do you remember the first time i wore this outfit, i tucked the top in, wore the leopard print pant with it's belt and completed the look with a yellow pump and my embellished River island bag, see the post here.

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If Winter can translate his success on The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire to the big screen, and Scorsese can wrangle a cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler, Jean Dujardin, Margot Robbie, Jon Bernthal, and Rob Reiner, then this digitally shot production (a first for Scorsese) should be another must - see from the team that brought us Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, and Shutter Island.

The 11th Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony occured on January 11 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Debut.

The 11th Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony occurred on January 11, 2018 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Debut.

The comic's below, and you can see Knuckles relaxing on his home on Angel Island before getting interrupted by Silver The Hedgehog, making his first appearance in a Sonic game since the much - hated Sonic The Hedgehog 2006, instantly making this his best appearance ever.

«The script, loosely based on Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island, sees Hutcherson reprising his role from the first movie and partnering with Johnson, playing his mom's boyfriend, on a trip to a mythical island to find his missing grandfIsland, sees Hutcherson reprising his role from the first movie and partnering with Johnson, playing his mom's boyfriend, on a trip to a mythical island to find his missing grandfisland to find his missing grandfather.

At first glance, those obsessed with the night sky or astronomical concerns are played for laughs: in New York City and its nearby boroughs, a cast of amusing characters with thick regional accents illustrate that we can no longer even see the stars from the island of Manhattan.

On the way to his first session, we see that the island is full of happy and flightless birds who greatly contrast Red, who lives outside of the village and has been an angry loner since childhood.

I'm fairly certain that many of you will already have made up your minds on Dead Island: Riptide, off the back of what you saw of the first game.

She follows them on the subway, to Coney Island and, most remarkably, trails them as they set out to see their first film in a theater.

But I was wrong about Vogt - Roberts; I saw little in his first feature to indicate the deftness and buoyant spirit he brings to «Skull Island.»

Booooooom, the mighty paw slams down on the top of a cliff as Skull Island's landlord, chief cook and monster - masher rises up to check out, nose to nose, the first humans we see on screen.

While not nearly so carefully - constructed as the first film, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams made me feel taken care of in the cosily nostalgic way of Saturday afternoon creature - features on local television, where you could count on seeing an old Godzilla or a classic Harryhausen.

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The moment in «The Force Awakens» when Luke, standing on an isolated island cliff, turns to see Rey for the first time was electrifying.

«So when I was first scouting there, I saw these guys, and I was like, oh, these are part of the island.

We've seen such a great response to our prior Academic Sprints that for the 2016 - 17 school year, we've decided to challenge all Study Island users to compete for Blue Ribbons in our first ever year - long contest!

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.

For the first time this year, teachers in Rhode Island and Florida will see their evaluations linked to the complex metric.

As the first major upgrade the Port has seen in years, this project's completion ensures we are ready to move forward and signals the start of a new era for the island of Guam.»

And when I was in Corpus Christi, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands with the Vice President and the Second Lady, I saw the importance of MARAD and the MARAD ships in providing basic services to our first responders and emergency workers so they could help the survivors and others who are trying to recover from such a devastating natural disaster.

I was curious to see if Chrysler's hybrid van could deliver genuine fuel savings in a real - world 4,500 - km test drive to Amelia Island, which is the first Florida exit on I - 95 south of Georgia.

«Talk about a dream come true... to go from being a kid in Long Island seeing that first Corvette to being inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame?

Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary.

Around the end of the 19th century, some of the quirkier amusements on Coney Island included the Switchback Railway, the first roller coaster in America, which was powered by gravity (1884); and the Elephant Hotel (see right), a 122 - foot, seven story inn / brothel shaped like an elephant (1885).

Her mother offered reassuring stories of her own first trip as the captain's wife, long years ago, and of the wonders she had seen on the voyage to Callao and the Chincha Islands.

Situated off the northeast coast of Malaysia, Pulau Bidong (pulau means island in Malay) was largely uninhabited until shortly after the fall of Saigon in April 1975 (see Beyond the Book for The Sympathizer) when the first refugees from Vietnam, a boatload of 47 people, made the hazardous 700 mile trip across the South China sea.

Fans of Carla's other series, Sharpe & Donovan, will be pleased to see HARBOR ISLAND released in paperback for the first time on March 31st.

My dog Trista barked when she saw horses for the first time on Mackinac Island in Michigan.

North American bison, which are honored on the first Saturday of November on National Bison Day, can be seen on an interior tour, while hiking the TransCatalina Trail and while camping at several Catalina Island campgrounds.