Sentences with word «leeward»

Take some time and enjoy various parts of the island — from the open, undeveloped eastern coast with its rugged landscape and rocky shores, to the protected leeward side of the island with its calm waters and tropical fish.

The Dive Friends Bonaire facilities make it easy dive on property or off at any of the 50 + shore dive sites running the length of Bonaires leeward coast.

Liveaboards move to sheltered leeward shores at night.

Her unique geography has created miles of leeward coastline with easy shore access and almost perfect dive conditions.

They also offer a standard sunset cruise on the houseboat, where you can end the day on the expansive upper deck while Elito guides the boat through the island's leeward lagoons.

The Channel cost of England happens to be ultra ideal for offshore wind, shallow awaters, chalk bed for easy anchoring, high reliable winds, but with leeward island, there's also lower wave formation.

Blowing sands overwhelm and bury vegetation, buildings and parking lots on the dune's windward side, and the tree hollows are being exhumed on the hill's leeward slope.

He won Hawaii's international surfing title three years ago at Makaha, Oahu's leeward beach, where a series of 20 - foot waves may suddenly rise and thunder in and as suddenly subside, so that a good rider on the last wave can sometimes catch the rebounding back swell and ride back out to sea.

Exiting the airport and continue on the AIRPORT ROAD until you reach LEEWARD HIGHWAY.

Caught, literally, in the middle, Kolius and his crew rounded the first leeward mark, set sail for a southwesterly shift that never arrived and then sat and watched as New Zealand sailed away on the last gasp of the dying easterly.

I know, it's a bit odd to be hosting some sort of travel guide (more so of a geographical post) of the different coasts for today but I just noticed the pattern of windward versus leeward with all of the photos that I edited yesterday.

Even more isolated Catalina camping is available on Catalina's protected leeward coast.

Join us as we explore the northern leeward side of the island.

Taking full advantage of the resort's more than half mile of blue Caribbean waterfront on the calm leeward side of the island, a full array of enjoyable water sports activities are available to guests on a complimentary basis.

Turn LEFTon LEEWARD HIGHWAY (there is a turnabout) and proceed along for about 10 minutes until you see a sign on your left that says PRATT»S ROAD.

I live leeward on Oahu just a few houses from a great beach.

Choose to experience performance sailing in the Pailolo Channel or leeward sailing in the «Au'Au Channel.

Our first luau came after an hour - long bus ride from bustling, tourist - clogged Waikiki to the quiet leeward side of Oahu where Ko Olina was once the beach retreat of King Kaméhaméha I's favorite wife.

The whole leeward side of a box elder tree is crusted with green: Where does one lichen end and another begin?

- Currently attending leeward community college.

All of our select leeward side vacation rental properties are beachfront and / or are within one short block from the beach.

Calm leeward conditions on the island's western coast are ideal for explorations of the shore, or trips to the nearby island of Klein Bonaire.

The Basil Jones area consists of a seaward beach ridge and leeward mangrove swamp with a broad intervening plateau of palm thicket.

Swimming on the tranquil leeward coast is never a problem.

We are perfectly situated to dive Grand Cayman's North Wall from our slip in the Cayman Islands Yacht Club and we are a short boat ride from the best Cayman Diving on the spectacular and typically leeward, West Side.

With a privileged view over the Ria Formosa National Park, chosen as one of Portugal's 7 Natural Wonders and just 15 km away from the city of Faro, the Real Marina Hotel & Spa is the ideal location to visit the Algarve leeward.

Excellent leeward coast beaches include Mt Wynne, Petit Byahaut, Buccament Bay, Richmond Bay and Cumberland Bay.

In a 1997 paper, he used theoretical models and ship drift data from intersecting track lines in the tropical North Atlantic to calculate the likely errors due to leeward winds (winds blowing towards the side of the ship).

Sea Glass is situated within the pristine fifteen - acre beachfront on Maui's leeward shore.

The tour Gomez conducted was of the northern leeward side ofthe island, the Bacalar Chico Ranger's station.

The offshore waters south and west of Oahu's leeward coast offers a fine assortment of both breeding Hawaiian seabirds and

Not spry enough to scamper on a deck or fend a tall sloop from a leeward wreck, I steer my way.

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

It was still too rough to circumnavigate the Cape but, on the leeward side, there was a small, rocky inlet where we could put ashore and sightsee.

Buchan Sr.'s spinnaker was drawing almost as soon as the windward mark was passed and was never doused until the bow reached the leeward one.

Clark added: «For a brief second there around the leeward marks we might have been World Champions, but the Austrians caught up so it wasn't to be.

If you're on the leeward side of Oahu visiting Aulani, another option is the beaches of Ko Olina.

In an easy - to - read style, the author contrasts the climate and vegetation on the windward and leeward sides of the Cascade Mountains, details how firefighters contain a wildfires and how wildfires can help the growth of vegetation and specific types of trees.

This helps students understand the climatic differences of moist air traveling over a mountain range and creating lush vegetation on one side and a drier climate on the leeward side.

The temperature of the air falls as ice is approached, especially on the leeward side; but generally only at an inconsiderable distance from it.

The team's computer simulations show that clouds of electrons will form in the leeward side in the crater.

Bones of another forlorn bird — the po`ouli — dot volcanic lava tubes on the leeward slopes of eastern Maui where James and Olsen have done much of their digging.

Birds that refused to budge from the leeward side died out long ago.