Sentences with phrase «island on rafts»

Welna covered the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, the mass exodus of Cubans who fled the island on rafts in 1994, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, and the U.S. intervention in Haiti to restore Jean Bertrand Aristide to Haiti's presidency.

-- A survival game in which a young lass and a stray dog team up to try and live as long as possible by travelling between small islands on a raft.

«You've got the mainland, and you've got this little island, and initially there were people who made it to the island on a raft or something.

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To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.

Instead of using boats to deliberately settle on Indonesian islands, hominins may have arrived as castaways, carried on makeshift rafts after floods.

You can explore wineries on the Finger Lakes, experience whitewater rafting in the Adirondacks, parasail above Lake George, ride horseback on Long Island's beaches, admire the leaves changing on Prospect Mountain in the fall, hike the Catskills, and so on.

Stranded on a mysterious island and armed with a few weapons as well as a magical map, our heroine explores the three - dimensional landscape in search of valuable loot and the eight scattered pieces of a raft that could be her ticket home.

Directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning («Max Manus «-RRB-, the film is the most expensive Norwegian production ever ($ 16.1 million) and tells the story of anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 journey, sailing from South America to the Polynesian Islands on a wooden raft.

In Desert Island Escape, make use of each animal's different skills, find materials and evade enemies on dozens of islands as you attempt to construct a raft and float to safety within seven days.

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

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• Big Island, HI: Get a lomilomi massage at Four Seasons Resort Hualalai • Big Sur, CA: Stop along the Pacific Coast Highway at Redwood Grill • British Columbia: Heli - ski over the Bugaboo Mountains • Charleston, SC: Stroll the city's private gardens • Chicago: Tour architectural landmarks • Churchill, Manitoba: Get face - to - face with polar bears • Houston: Admire art at the Rothko Chapel • Jackson Hole, WY: Go fly - fishing • Las Vegas: Drive a Ferrari at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway • Los Angeles: Spend a night out celeb - spotting • Maine: Devour the ultimate lobster roll at Clam Shack • Miami: Learn to salsa at Hoy Como Ayer • Montreal: Take a comfort food tour • Na Pali coast, Kauai: Hike the Kalalau Trail • Napa Valley, CA: Eat and play like a local • New Orleans: Hear jazz at Preservation Hall • New York City: Start a perfect day at MoMA and Casa Lever • Salmon River, ID: Go whitewater rafting on the Middle Fork • San Francisco: Slurp oysters at Hog Island Oyster Bar • Sedona, AZ: Get a Reiki energy healing treatment at Mii Amo • Utah: Drive from the San Juan Inn through Monument Valley • Washington, D.C.: Immerse yourself in the Freer Gallery's Peacock Room • Yosemite National Park: Visit the sequoias in Mariposa Grove

Our Northern Vancouver Island and British Columbia west coast rafting tours focus on the whole river adventure - wilderness, wildlife and personal discovery.

We offer professionally guided river rafting tours ranging from the thrills of whitewater rafting on the largest watershed on the island to serene scenic river floats, SUP the Estuary and snorkeling with thousands of returning salmon in the Campbell River.

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Species that reached the islands were aerial, such as birds and bats, or rafted across the water on debris and other material.

Situated on the west coast of the North Island, trips out to Cape Scott Provincial Park, Raft Cove, and neighboring west coast destinations require careful planning and preparation.

While trail to Raft Cove is considered challenging by some, the hour long hike brings visitors on to one of the most stunning beaches of Northern Vancouver Island.

The Nimpkish River multi-day rafting tours on northern Vancouver Island feature whitewater, wildlife and lush rainforest scenery.

Experience the best of wild Vancouver Island on this fun filled river rafting trip.

This designated BC Heritage River provides our easiest river rafting tour and is a great introduction to river rafting on Vancouver Island.

Rafting Rafting or, is one of your favorite adventure tours attempted anywhere, of course also on the island of Gods.

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An exhilarating, high speed ocean rafting ride on Captain Zodiac will take Jillian and her «date» along the Gold Coast of the Big Island, bringing them to a virtually inaccessible and remote, black sand beach.

high end bedding, beautiful hard cover books of the Cayman islands on coffee table, pots, pans, even the wine glasses had jewelry, lots of soaps, towels she had many extra amenities even had blow up rafts to use for swimming in the beautiful pool or ocean that is right outside the window.

Take your pick from white water rafting on the Tully River, snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, rainforest excursions, island hopping on kayaks.

Chile has a wealth of adventure tourism for visitors to uncover from skiing down a volcano in Pucón, scuba - diving off Easter Island and ice - field walking in Patagonia, to taking a hot air balloon flight over the Atacama Desert and white water rafting on the Futaleufu River.

Ocean Rafting Tours will take you out to the islands at high speed on their fleet of bright yellow rigid inflatables.

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities in the region, such as excursions to Hobbiton and other filming locations from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, visiting the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, a traditional Maori hangi lunch, kayaking or sailing on local lakes, fly fishing on local streams, whitewater rafting, mountain biking, hiking in Tongariro National Park and an exclusive helicopter excursion to White Island, an active marine volcano.

Snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, white water rafting, sailing to tropical islands, browsing for crafts at country town markets, skydiving from 14000 feet, fishing for barramundi, enjoying tropical rainforest tours — what more could you want?

For sports lovers, the Mission Beach district offers wild white water rafting, snorkeling, diving, and a host of other sports for the brave traveler — you can also camp on your very own reef island or spend a little time lazing at a resort.

Dunk Island, The Great Barrier Reef, The Family Group of Islands, Sailing, Fishing, Boating, Jet - skiing, Diving, Snorkelling, Kayaking, Sky - diving, River - rafting, Hiking, Beach - combing, Chilling on miles of palm - fringed beaches.

Finding herself shipwrecked on a Japanese island, the story will see Lara put through a raft of survival situations that will challenge her and help send her on the way to becoming the adventurer she was destined to be.

Left stranded on the shore after their raft breaks, Ittle and Tippsie explore the terrain in search of treasure, weapons, puzzle - solving tools and the eight scattered pieces of another raft that can allow them to escape the island.»

Stranded on a mysterious island and armed with a few weapons as well as a magical map, our heroine explores the three - dimensional landscape in search of valuable loot and the eight scattered pieces of a raft that could be her ticket home.

We find our heroes, Ittle and her assistant Tippsie on a raft which inevitably crashes in to an island and is destroyed.

Floating on a raft with my flying fox friend, we get a sudden surprise as we crash ashore onto a strange island.

Stranded on the island, the duo has to adventure through eight dungeons in order to get pieces for a new raft to get off the island (Tippsie makes a joke as to why they can't simply make a raft from one of the many nearby trees).

Carnivalesque sets on pedestals like walled in city environments inform his sculptural installations, a modern day Raft of the Medusa or islands at the edge of a void.

Floating islands covered with native plants serve as «biodiversity «life rafts»» for aquatic species, while aerial sculptures give hawks, owls, and eagles a safe place to roost and nest «in areas where taking off and landing on older power poles may result in electrocution, or areas where human disturbance may make nesting difficult.»

Glaciation left an extensive geologic record on the continents in the form of predominantly unconsolidated tills and glacial moraines, which in North America extend in a line as far south as Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Long Island, New York, and on the ocean floor in the form of ice - rafted detritus dropped from calving icebergs.

The goats were shepherded to the island against their will much as the tortoises and iguanas that floated over on log rafts long ago were.

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.