Sentences with phrase «high cliff face»

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Reminds me of those pictures of mountain cliffs and high up in the middle of the face of the cliff grows a single tree out from a crevice.

Flannery's face sharpened, visibly pulled itself together as he began to search the high, landward cliffs for marks that he knew, that his father and his father and all the long line of Flannerys had known about the water and the fishing off the Dingle peninsula.

If the Treasury had its way in full, the likelihood is that people on incomes of roughly # 40,000 - # 50,000 would face a permanent mix of withdrawn tax breaks and higher tax rates - what Altman calls a «cliff edge».

Plus, he notes that a subset of rock climbing called bouldering — in which climbers tackle boulders or short cliff faces measuring less than 3.5 meters high, without using safety ropes — is especially popular with younger people.

The ice rises up like a sheer cliff face — shelf ice is not only several thousand square kilometres large, it is also more than a hundred metres high in many places.

I know there will be critics out there and some who may suggest that actually, schools with a higher ability intake face an equally tough challenge, meaning that if those higher ability students don't achieve then the cliff face they fall off as a school will significantly impact upon their progress score too.

A village in China's mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb an 800 - meter (2,625 - foot)- high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety

Imagine yourself dangling over the edge of sheer cliff faces and descending down into a never - ending pitch black cave, hanging only from a rope high above the earth's surface.

On the south facing cliffs of Haystack Rock, the lanky, greenish - black Pelagic Cormorant builds nests of seaweed on precarious narrow ledges high above the surf.

Hout Bay The beach is a collection of shallow open reefs and high impact zones with sheer wave faces of 15 - 25 ft.. At the base of the Sentinel Mountain cliffs this danger zone on the west side of Africa's southern coast is the most ultimate extreme surfing...

It is a beautiful island with very high sheer cliff faces dropping vertically into the water.

Boasting a cliff - concealed beach, ocean - facing villas, and access to Menorca's highest point, Cala»n Porter is a jewel of a resort that lures in couples, families, and groups of sun - seekers, so why not do the same for your 2019 holiday?

This lookout is the second highest point on the island and drops off to sheer cliff faces, revealing an excellent panoramic view of the main resort area, marina village and surrounding islands.

Every path calls you» round the bend to complete serenity, with many an added thrill of high verges, cliff faces and powerful rivers.

The original lighthouse, built in 1855 high upon a cliff face of the Marin Headlands, was buried in fog and considered ineffective.

Travellers can canoe, cruise and swim between sheer cliffs to the sandy freshwater beaches of the main gorges, and view ancient Aboriginal rock paintings high on rock faces of this spectacular natural wonder.

Coconuts Beach Resort is a simple and nice Bali hotel located on the cliff beach of Lembongan island, with 18 free standing villas with their alang - alang thatched roofs are miraculously overlooking Mt. Agung and with the sounds of the sea.Each villa at Coconuts Beach Resort is surrounded by a raised pavilion with a landscape setting, facing gardens, the ocean and the lower and higher swimming pool.

Coming up was a view of Bat Hill, two sheer adjoining cliff faces that look like the wings of a bat; the first of many named limestone peaks or sheer cliff faces (some 300 - meters high) on our boat trip down the Li River.

The island's feature is of high cliffs and rocks facing the open sea at the western coast.

The south - facing, 10 - hectare site rises from the 70m - high cliff - face to the resort's entrance, which is about 110m above sea level, so providing all villas with great views of the Indian Ocean.

After that we will visiting Uluwatu Temple or known as a rock cliff Temple due the location on the 70 - meter - high cliff and facing to Indian Ocean.

This expanse of 492 grottoes carved into the sandstone face of a nine - story - high cliff holds an unrivaled collection of Buddhist art, with more than 484,000 square feet of murals and 2,400 sculptures.

And older climate models did not include dynamic ice sheet vulnerabilities — like high latent - heat ocean water coming into contact with the submerged faces of sea - fronting glaciers, the ability of surface melt water to break up glaciers by pooling into cracks and forcing them apart (hydrofracturing), or the innate rigidity and frailty of steep ice cliffs which render them susceptible to rapid toppling.