Sentences with word «mudflats»

Staircase to the Moon is a natural phenomenon is caused by a full moon rising over the exposed mudflats of Roebuck Bay at extremely low tides, creating a beautiful optical illusion of a staircase reaching to the moon.

Fiddler crabs (Uca stenodactylus) live on mudflats, a very reflective environment, and they behave differently depending on the amount of polarisation reflected by objects, the researchers found.

Sprawling, unspoiled Andros has a coastline threaded with mudflats, bights, and shallow lagoons: prime territory for catching bonefish.

The Spit is New Zealand's longest sandspit system, extending eastward in the Tasman Sea for approximately 30 km, but sheltered to the south with tidal mudflats extending up to 6 km seaward at low tide.

BEIJING — Along China's coastline, rapid development has transformed marshes and mudflats into ports and urban sprawl; a line of concrete seawalls and sandbags now stretches longer than China's Great Wall.

Unlike clams which are dug from mudflats and oysters that are pried off rocks, scallops are free - swimming and are harvested in trawls, dredges or by divers.

The Reddish Egret specializes in hunting in estuaries and on coastal mudflats.

Another hotspot are the Tofino Mudflats, although they can be hard to access from land.

Low water in channels can restrict navigation, expose mudflats and rocks, as well as leave boats and docks high and dry.

This unique coastal place has three diverse ecosystems, beach - mangroves and coastal reef that are connected to each other by the ever changing mudflats and tidal lagoons.

Like the webbing on a duck's foot, marshes and mudflats prevail between the shipping channels that have been cut into the delta.

Bay muds often have a high organic content, consisting of decayed organisms at lower depths, but may also contain living creatures when they occur at the upper soil layer and become exposed by low tides; then, they are called mudflats, an important ecological zone for shorebirds and many types of marine organisms.

Pressed into estuary mudflats now hard with age, these prints are the oldest ones known outside of Africa, where humanity arose.

If rumored development goes forward in one area of intact mudflats her group is closely monitoring, in Rudong County near Shanghai, it could «ring the death knell for that species,» Millington says.

TOUGHING IT OUT Researchers investigate what lets certain patches of seagrasses survive hot spells and drying winds when receding tides leave them as a flat green carpet on the Banc d'Arguin mudflats off the West Africa coast.

On otherwise barren mudflats, habitat - forming invasive species such as nonnative seaweed can offset the loss of foundation species and provide vital ecosystem services, such as storm protection and food production, on which nearly half the human population depends.

Gracilaria seaweed's invasion of North Carolina mudflats provided the researchers with a unique system to conduct their study in an area where native species are absent or have severely declined.

While there's a chance that the glint is coming from liquid - covered mudflats rather than waves, the researchers say their best - fit model indicates that they're actual waves.

How long can you linger on feet bouncing off sea - soaked mudflats before it becomes a poetic indulgence?

The southern part of the beach, by Ngam Kho and Horizon resorts, is kind of crappy regardless of tide, with only mudflats and rocks joining the clear water.

The Riviera mudflat is perhaps the most famous of the Velddrif birding localities and a number of rarities have be...

An interpretive kiosk and boardwalk viewing area found along the beach and refuge mudflats.

Once a grassy park overlooking mudflats, it now features a world - class facility incorporating an outdoor amphitheatre, a large sandy swimming lagoon, grassy picnic areas, walking tracks, public barbeques, children's playground, shops and restaurants, an environmental interpretation centre and a Great Barrier Reef Cruise departure terminal.

In Vancouver, he also realized From shangri - la to shangri - la, a temporary installation based on huts that were erected on the Maplewood mudflats in North Vancouver during the second half of the twentieth century.

A drought - shrunken lake in Kenya shows how grassy mudflats become great magnets for grazing animals.

Your insurance premiums may not be the least expensive in the United States, but going without coverage in Alaska is about as risky as braving the seacoast mudflats.

Seven states and Mexico use nearly every drop of the Colorado water flow, reducing a once - lush delta on the Gulf of California to a sliver in a sun - baked mudflat.

Mission Beach Rainforest Apartments are located in a culdesac a very short walk to one of Tropical North Queensland's best beaches - 14 km of clean sand with not a mangrove or mudflat in sight!

The team — which includes marine scientists, a commercial mussel farmer, and volunteers from a New York City — based youth development program — spent several exhausting days collecting nearly 32,000 adult ribbed mussels from the salt marshes and mudflats of Jamaica Bay in New York City.

Without «legislative power to stop reclamation, crossing the «red line» is just a matter of time,» warns Jing Li, founder of the Shanghai - based nonprofit Saving the Spoon - Billed Sandpiper in China, named after a critically endangered species that depends upon China's coastal mudflats.

Below we have listed many of the offshore and onshore marine birds.Some good places to bird watch include the Tofino Mudflats, Deep Bay Spit, Admirals Lagoon, Sidney Spit, Little Qualicum Estuary, Nanaimo Estuary, Somass Estuary, Englishman River Estuary and Courtenay Airpark.

This flight takes you over tidal mudflats, mangrove systems, waterfalls and gorges.

I began to feel that the Mass gave me a living connection with my ancestors in England and Scotland before the Reformation and with other ancestors thousands of years earlier than that, in the woods and in the caves on the mudflats of Europe.

Families can visit the Pegwell Bay Country Park to discover more of the mudflats and salt marshes and take a closer look at the varied nature.

High seas had eroded the beach sand to reveal the mudflats underneath.

At low tide, visitors prowl the mudflats in search of sunken fossils and scavenge the shoreline jumble, rock hammers in hand.

There is a revival of life in the Mesopotamian marshlands, a vast expanse of seasonal and permanent marshes, lakes, and mudflats that once stretched for up to 7,500 square miles, a region roughly three - quarters the size of the Everglades.

The left side of the interferogram shows fringe patterns due to the morphology of the Chenier reflecting water level changes in the mudflats in between the ridges of the Chenier's.

The new study suggests their tails - which played a key role in swimming as fish - may have helped supplement the work of fins, especially on sloping granular surfaces such as beaches and mudflats.

Unlike land - based farms, he can only harvest when the tide recedes, leaving over a mile of mudflats, and shellfish, exposed.

Working on the mudflats, often with his son and dog in tow, is the fulfillment of a dream for Dewey, a shellfish farmer for more than 30 years who is also the public policy and communications director for Taylor Shellfish Company.

There are images in Lost in La Mancha I want to talk about in particular: Gilliam walking on a mudflat, and Vanessa Paradis, the actress playing Dulcinea, in a series of screen tests.

The shells were pulled from the salt marshes and mudflats, from the sandy bay and at low tide along the shore.

Maryland's Eastern Shore was a world of marshes and mudflats, of wide fields with row crops straight as soldiers.

On some beaches, mudflats are exposed at low tide.

Join one of the Kuubirri Warrra clan on their beach, mudflat and mangrove cultural walk.