Sentences with phrase «floating raft»

Iguanas arrived on the islands several million years ago, courtesy of a floating raft of vegetation and the southerly Panama current, from somewhere around the Amazon basin.

Warp there and find a floating raft which the merchant is on.

You'll stay in a mix of fancy hotels, floating raft houses, jungle tree houses and beach side bungalows.

We'll jump on the traditional long tail boat to our floating raft houses hidden deep in the rainforest of Khao Sok National Park.

Explore Bangkok's temples and night life, wake up in the jungle on our floating raft houses, see baby monkeys in...

After floating a raft of names — from former rival and now designated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson to New York City charter magnate Eva Moskowitz to former Washington D.C. School Chancellor and Patron Saint of Firing Teachers Michelle Rhee to actually qualified school choice advocate and Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Williamson Evers — Donald Trump has settled upon Michigan billionaire and school privatization zealot Betsy DeVos as his nominee for Secretary of Education.

A floating raft stocked with the marine bivalves could remove about 60 kilograms of nitrogen from the water each year, they suggest, and a flotilla of hundreds of rafts could make meaningful improvements to water quality in urban areas.

To make a tall tower or a floating raft, fire ants follow the same set of rules.

I have one big enough to float a raft in.

Guests will receive the following amenities associated with the Resort Fee: Comforts: • Complimentary dining for children five years old and younger in SEVEN, Bar Jack, Andiamo and Taikun • High - speed and wireless Internet access • Use of laptop computers available in Silver Palm Lounge • Morning coffee and tea available in Silver Palm Lounge • Valet parking • Calls to U.S. and Canada (10 minute limit per day) Recreation: • Access to Starfish Cay, an interactive water playground for children and families • Use of Basketball court • Access to la prairie spa facilities including steam rooms, saunas and whirlpools • The fitness center and invigorating fitness classes such as Yoga, Latin Dance Party and Total Toning • Water sports toys including kayaks, standing paddle boards, water tricycle, floating rafts, paddle boats and water hammocks • One - on - one sailing lessons • Snorkeling gear and lessons from our water sports experts at 10:30 a.m. daily • Use of the Jean - Michel Cousteau's Ambassadors of the Environment turtle splash pool • Use of The Ritz - Carlton Golf Club, Grand Cayman chipping and putting green, and hitting area at The Courts by Bollettieri • Use of the hitting area and tennis courts (hard) at The Courts Entertainment: • Movies under stars at the Harbour Club Theatre • Access to a comprehensive DVD Library for in - room viewing • Game room Important Information: Redemption information will be provided by the hotel at check - in.

Water sports toys including kayaks, standing paddle boards, water tricycle, floating rafts, sail boat

Heck, even places with water in (like Akkala) feel like they have maybe four floating rafts in the entire map sector.

One way of reducing evaporation losses would be by floating rafts of solar PV (photovoltaic) panels on the dams, giving the advantage of generating power at the same time.

Not exact matches

HONG KONG — The crowd, most of them wearing masks, squinted up at the raft of multicolored balloons floating near the ceiling, trying to make out the silhouettes of the coins suspended inside each one.

«Colonization of the islands could have been possible thanks to natural rafts such as floating mangroves that typhoons occasionally break off the coast,» said Thomas Ingicco, the lead author of a study about the archeological site published in the journal Nature.

In other cultures, bodies are sent down a river in a canoe, or floated out to sea on a raft, or raised up to the sky in the trees.

There were five of us floating — Sean and his wife, Chris, and his dad and me, holding onto each other's rafts.

Or the album closer, «In Reverse,» which floats like a life raft in an endless sea, until the song finds its own land around the 3:15 mark.

A raft of logs would be floated from the Black Sea and when they got to Ephesus or Corinth, the different lumber merchants would come and look over the logs and make their selections of which ones they wanted.

Sharemarket investors will be scrutinising the financial performance of a raft of recently floated companies as reporting season enters the home stretch.

Surprisingly the paper raft did float for a very short amount of time.

Movies at the indoor pool, glow - in - the - dark necklaces and popcorn while floating on a raft.

The raft and washing up sponge floated well, but both were a little too big for our half pipes, so we decided smaller washing up sponge boats would be the best option.

If the ships don't float well, you can place them on small rafts.

A raft of compromises had been floated in recent days at the Capitol for public financing, including allowing the state attorney general's race to be included, as well as a phased - in approach for the system.

That raft is all too familiar, it's still floating around after Ed Millibands ship the SS Soundbite sank.

Two protein receptors (yellow, red) float in a cell membrane's lipid rafts (orange), which play a role in antidepressants» delay.

A quickly formed raft lets the insects float to safety.

The researchers then slowly flooded the bucket until the ants floated out of the dirt and formed a raft that could be easily scooped out.

The sides are only about 20 inches which is the perfect height for floating around in a raft and basking in the sun all day.

It soaked the fields til the dirt lifted clear and floated away like a raft.

These unpredictable eruptions may also create a floating blanket of rocks, called a pumice raft, which can clog harbors and damage boats.

POOF Most of the debris from the 2012 eruption of Havre (shown), a deep - sea volcano near New Zealand, ended up in a pumice raft that floated across the South Pacific.

Although underwater eruptions happen all the time, scientists have only recorded such events since the 1990s, and pumice rafts can often float under the radar.

At some point, you encounter other people floating on rafts.

After planting in our minds the arresting image of skeletons floating on rafts of pumice, for instance, he pauses for a lecture on the many uses of pumice and other volcanic stones.

Gale force winds and waves buffeted the life raft, and the only way the crew could keep hold of it was to flip it over and hang onto it from underneath, floating in the water.

On so - called rafts (repurposed polystyrene insulation panels) floating in the tubs, basil, bok choy and lettuce plants grow hydroponically — that is, without soil — their bare roots dangling through holes in the rafts to draw nutrients directly from the water below.

Before it got the two turbines going in Hastings, Hydro Energy Green tested a turbine in the Mississippi River by floating it from a raft and releasing hundreds of fish in front of it.

Structures that look like ice rafts are floating in a refrozen matrix; the remarkable absence of craters there points to a geologically active surface and hints that liquid water may have welled up from below in the recent past.

On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealand.

By floating on rafts across the sea.

Instead, she had sailed into a massive raft of floating pumice stone.

Those proteins will often be anchored in specific regions called «lipid rafts,» which are enriched in saturated fatty acids to provide the stability needed to keep those proteins from floating away from their proper position.

While you can find other flamingo pool floats, I picked the GoFloats version for 1) its size 2) the cup holders and 3) its raft - quality materials.

We enjoyed cocktails and snacks while floating on rafts in the pool.

They manage to float in a raft for 47 days before being rescued into enemy hands, and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp near Tokyo.

You must navigate your way down the river, avoiding rocks, rapids, and floating debris, and find places to moor your raft while you scavenge for supplies.

Glass is desperate to protect his son, borne to a Pawnee mother killed during an English raid, right in front Glass» eyes, in the village wherein he spent what seems to be the best years of his life, and so he takes responsibility over the small surviving party (apparently led by Henry) and commands them to part with their raft fearing another ambush would follow should they continue floating that stream.

The rogue - like adventure game starring a young girl floating down a river on a raft, regularly stopping to gather supplies inland, came out this week on the Switch eShop.