Sentences with phrase «in a canoe when»

They didn't understand why people would rather stay out of the water in a canoe when they could be chilling in the water & cruising along.

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WHITE WATER SCRAMBLE Drifting downstream in a canoe can be a dreamy glide with cushions and mandolin or the splash and scramble that occurs during the weekend each spring when the Buck Ridge Ski Club canoeists tackle Pennsylvania's Lehigh Gorge and play «river roulette» against rocks, current and a boiling spray which guarantees a fast swim for losers.

Art Sr. once nearly drowned when Squawker Mullen overturned a canoe in the middle of flooded Exposition Park, which stood on the site of Three Rivers Stadium, where the Steelers play now.

People paddling canoes, kayaks and stand - up paddleboards should know their abilities and take precautions when there are high or steady winds creating large waves, or when they are in strong currents.

No fewer than seven people died on Wednesday in Darei village of Jahun Local Government Area of Jigawa when two canoes capsized.

When explorer Aldo Leopold canoed the delta in 1922, he marvelled at «a verdant wall of mesquite and willow» that separated the river from the desert.

The part I'll always remember is when she's in the canoe with the hot British guy and he asks her, «Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you were born to stand out?»

I think canoeing is more fun when the weather is warm and you can take breaks while baking in the sun < 3 http://thesofieyahdiaries.com/fashion/badass-chic

In 1991, the photographer was swimming alongside a canoe on the winding Loxahatchee River outside Jupiter, waiting for still winds and bright sun, when Butcher spotted his chance.

In Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well - intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.

When writing the Brooke Kinley series, A.S. Bond draws on her own travel experiences, including leading an award - winning canoe expedition in Labrador, later the... [Read more...]

When writing the Brooke Kinley series, A.S. Bond draws on her own travel experiences, including leading an award - winning canoe expedition in Labrador, later the subject of «Lost Lands, Forgotten Stories; A Woman's Journey to the Heart of Labrador», published by HarperCollins in North America and Eye Books in the UK (written under the name Alexandra Pratt).

When the winter weather sets in, you can hit the slopes at nearby Sugar Mountain, and during the summer, tour the Catawba River by canoe.

When Liz is not working; she enjoys hiking, camping, canoeing, traveling, painting, and visiting all the wonderful craft breweries in our beautiful state.

When we would go out onto the lake in a boat or canoe, then she would really go nuts.

It was named from the Nuu - chah - nulth term «yu - clutl - ahts» which is said to mean «the people of safe harbour» and «'' people with a safe place to land» coined by the aboriginals in a time when canoes were the primary source of water transportation.

The Mayans paddled canoes through the channel when transporting corn and other trade goods in and out of the city.

It is interesting to note that Barton Creek Cave was part of a recent list of» 9 most unusual and beautiful caves in the world», and when you are in your canoe exploring this cave, you will know why.

The club was formed in 1873 when a group of enthusiasts for the newly popular sailing canoes built a club house at Rosneath on the Clyde.

Kitaj's output, of course, never enjoyed anything like the five-fold jump in auction prices that Doig's experienced between June 2006 and February 2007, when his White Canoe fetched a record # 5.7 million.

His market caught fi re after 2005, peaking in 2007 when White Canoe sold for $ 11,283,464 at Sotheby's February sale (Fig. 17).

But in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngCanoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angcanoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Prices steadily built, but nothing prepared him for the day in 2007 when The White Canoe, given an estimate of under # 1million, sold for # 5.7 million at Sotheby's to an anonymous Russian collector.

Fortunately, your art gallery catalogue tells you that Andre took his radical decision to make art flat on the floor in 1965, when canoeing on a lake in New Hampshire, and that this majestic pile of bricks exemplifies his artistic creed that «form = structure = place.»

For a brief moment in 2007, when Charles Saatchi sold White Canoe for nearly six million pounds at Sotheby's, the Scottish - born painter Peter Doig became Europe's most expensive living artist.

The titans who at the time had yet to learn they were titans — Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell — were among the visual artists who, when not sequestered in their hushed studios, hung out on the beach, smoking, drinking, cooking, canoeing, clamming, and coveting one another's lovers and spouses.

I asked our naturalist / guide Miguel and he told me that a motor would chew up the vegetation in the river, the wake would disturb the shore, and why pay for gas when they can employ two young strong Kichwa to paddle the canoes?

«When I was in high school, one of the things I did was white - water canoeing,» he explains.

Here's the thing: the local aborigines knew and warned about climate change in Gundagai, and saved many lives from their bark canoes when the Great Flood hit.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!

Last year, self - proclaimed Arctic ambassador Lewis Pugh hit the headlines when he set off to canoe to the North Pole to raise awareness of the shrinking summer ice, although he went rather quiet — as did the media — after he failed miserably in his mission, having been blocked by summer ice.

When I met with him in New York, he was about 5,000 miles into the trip, which he has so far undertaken by a foot, bicycle, and canoe or kayak.

It shows their arrival in early fall, when they work for days to transport their food and equipment from a boat in the river by canoe to the shoreline, then haul it up a hill to the cabin.

Those victims of drowning following a boating accident who were wearing a life jacket, yet still drowned, were either those in a kayak or canoe who became entrapped when their vessel capsized, or those who were injured severely enough they were unable to keep their face out of the water, even with a life jacket.

Follow appropriate «rules of the road,» particularly when canoeing in waterways with a lot of boat traffic.

When I was in HS I work at a concession stand at a lake, making hotdogs, cotton candy and renting canoes... good memories.