Sentences with phrase «for hundreds of metres»

Medewi is known for its very long left point break, peeling gently for hundreds of metres, and Balian produces some amazingly consistent waves all year round as it breaks at the river mouth.

Rolling for hundreds of metres this is ideal for those who love to longboard or practice some carves on big open faces!

Not exact matches

A day earlier, two men had been attacked by sharks in separate incidents just hundreds of metres and a few hours apart while surfing at breaks a stone's throw up the coast from where heats were being held for the Margaret River Pro.

For this purpose, a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) is used, which scans its surroundings with a laser beam within a radius of several hundred metres.

Volumes range from a few hundred cubic metres to more than a thousand cubic kilometres, and the larger ones can travel for hundreds of kilometres although none on that scale have occurred for several hundred thousand years.

For more than three billion years the mats captured and precipitated sediments, building reefs over a hundred metres high and hundreds of kilometres long, and changing in composition and complexity as new forms of life appeared.

To make a case for the channels, Osborne's team excavated snail fossils buried by half a metre of sand from a channel in Libya and compared their chemical makeup to rocks from volcanoes hundreds of kilometres away.

For starters, we are talking about working at depths of kilometres, rather than hundreds of metres, usual for watFor starters, we are talking about working at depths of kilometres, rather than hundreds of metres, usual for watfor water.

It is ideally located in a picturesque fishing village, just about 200m from a quaint fishing port and only about some hundreds of metres from the commercial centre and nightlife of Cala RatjadaThree beautiful beaches are within easy reach of hotel - Cala Gat, Cala Agulla, Son Moll - each with fine sand, clear water and all facilitiesBellavista is one of the more established hotels in Cala Ratjada and is regularly renovated to maintain its high standards of comfort and provide its guests with a comfortable environmentAll rooms have air conditioning (cool / heat), TV - Sat, mini-fridge, Wii Internet, cosmetic mirror and hair - dryer - included in the price; dispose of bathroom and balcony, telephone, safeAfter the last reforms the hotel dispose of lifts in both buildings, ground floor reform made, the entrance and rooms in the pit suitable for disabled persons, swimming pool has an hydraulic elevator, Wii Lan able in all hotel areaIn addition to having a pool, outdoor terraces, gym with baths, jacuzzi, turkish bad and sauna, a bar (with satellite TV, air conditioning and cybercafe), Bellavista offers its guests mini-golf, billiards, darts and table tennis.

This tiny island lies approximately four hundred metres from the shore of the medieval fishing port of Stresa on Maggiore's western bank in Piedmont; an area of Italy renowned for its outstanding natural beauty and tranquillity.

A series of long, curving switchbacks were carved directly into the face of the rock, allowing the train to gradually ascend or descend the Devil's Nose for more than eight hundred metres by slowly shunting backward and forward to negotiate the steep switchbacks.

The oversized lobby in dusitD2 Phuket Resort is a busy place, with smartly dressed pilots and air hostesses checking in and out.Over to the side stands Colonnade Cafe, a 200 - seat restaurant with an al fresco section that is well known for meeting special dietary requests with professional expertise.On the first floor next to the swimming pool is Kids World, a truly well - thought - out concept that caters for children, from toddlers to teens.This is decidedly one of Phukets better kids clubs.On the top floor of this seven - storey hotel is a fine air - conditioned and fully equipped fitness room of exclusive use for hotel guests and next to that is one of Phukets most appealing rooftop swimming pools that enjoys great views of the city, the surrounding mountains, and Patong Beach just a few hundred metres away.

This also means that the location is very safe for kids — no through traffic and the main road is a couple of hundred metres away at the rear of the property — so there's no traffic noise either.

The beach offers multiple surf breaks: a left and two main rights, one of which runs for a couple of hundred metres on a good day, and while the waves out the back are for more able surfers, in close plenty of broken waves tumble in for those learning.

Sundowner Cruises offer several options and at the end of your jaunt will leave you at the Port of Airlie, just a few hundred metres from Walter's Lounge, the perfect choice for dinner.

Artworks made especially for this exhibition include Yukuwa (Feather string yam vine) by Frances Djulibing and one hundred metres of hand - made string by artists from Yirrkala.

A 12 - metre - long panoramic view of a Martian landscape set hundreds of years in the future, Mariner 9 (2012) presented in this partnership between Dundee Contemporary Arts and NEoN Digital Arts Festival, evokes the human search for life beyond our own planet that continues even as we damage or destroy entire ecosystems on Earth.

Tom Na H - iu (2006), a place where transmigrate souls were believed to rest in ancient Celtic religion, is a large glass monolith five metres high, lit from within by hundreds of LED lights and connected to Super Kamiokande, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at The University of Tokyo.

Year 2013: surface skin has wamed a tiny fraction of 1C (not shown for comparison simplicity) and ocean mixing will not permit it to balance within 0.003 C at the sub-skin (maybe also ocean happens to mix heat down a tad faster due to a natural variation), now will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.69462 C instead of prior 0.697 C (ocean - air interface at 0.70000 C).

For example, the Marcellus Shale fracking is said to have used some 2.5 million cubic metres of water in a year in hundreds of wells over a large area encompassing several US states.