Sentences with phrase «of old shipwrecks»

Along the way you'll see hillsides of cypress and wildflowers, views of old shipwrecks, access to the epic ruins of Sutro Baths, pocket beaches, and a new Lookout Visitor Center.

It is a favorite playground for dolphins and sea turtles and has the remnants of an old shipwreck with a 400 - year - old anchor.

Just a short trip from plane to sand and you'll find a collection of yachts sailing beneath the Simpson Bay Bridge, as well as the remains of an old shipwreck jutting up out of the bay.

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This world may indeed, as science assures us, some day burn up or freeze; but if it is part of his order, the old ideals are sure to be brought elsewhere to fruition, so that where God is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.

Off the coast of Greece, near the tiny island of Antikythera, a 2,000 - year - old shipwreck continues to offer up its bounty.

Instead, much of the detector's flak vest is made of ancient lead obtained from a 2,000 - year - old Roman shipwreck.

Then, in December 2011, researchers began the first systematic dives to examine what appears to be the oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, radiocarbon dated to between the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C.E. Because almost nothing was known about seafaring in this time and place, the wreck promises to remake our understanding of the region and era, team members say.

One of those layers is 4.5 centimeters of lead salvaged from the ballast of a centuries - old French shipwreck, whose age ensures that most of the potentially contaminating radiation from the decay of unstable lead isotopes is long gone.

Not by Babylonian standards Archaeology's Top Ten Discoveries of 2010 «New» Old Human Ancestors: Siberia's Denisovians Macchu Pichu Artifacts Being Returned by Yale World's Oldest Champagne Tastes Sweet After 200 - Year Shipwreck Did Cavemen Make Bread?

A 100 - year - old shipwreck has been found at the bottom of Lake Erie, WSPD reports.

of the worlds oldest shipwreck was found - 2300 years old, dating from the time of.

Soon, the quartet is shipwrecked on an island where they meet Merlin (voice of Eric Idle), Artie's old magic teacher who had a nervous breakdown and now has new age tendencies.

Also among the 9 Oscar nominees for best picture Thursday: the old - age love story «Amour»; the Iran hostage thriller «Argo»; the independent hit «Beasts of the Southern Wild»; the slave - revenge narrative «Django Unchained»; the musical «Les Miserables»; the shipwreck story «Life of Pi»; the lost - souls romance «Silver Linings Playbook»; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle «Zero Dark Thirty.»

«Old age is a shipwreck,» De Gaulle said of the Vichy - era Pétain, and we get raw glimpses of that disintegration in Magnolia, in which Jason Robards» formerly vibrant and difficult family patriarch is reduced to a drooling, gargling shape under the bedsheets, but more especially in Michael Haneke's Amour, which spares us nothing in the physical realm — changing sheets, diapers, and bath - time — but adds, for extra discomfort, as is Haneke's habit, the emotional toil taken on the equally elderly but less ill partner doing the caring.

Actually, it was she who created the storm and a dramatic shipwreck, which sweeps to the island her old enemies, including bad bro» Antonio, Alonso the King of Naples (a nobler - than - thou David Strathairn) and his brother Sebastian (a foppish Alan Cumming).

Caiappe and Scherfig pack the film with fun side characters and pseudo showbiz insider jokes, like when they go out to the past - his - prime actor Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy, always the scene stealer) for the «corpse role» of the drunken father who's described as being a «shipwreck of a man» who is in his 60s but «looks older.»

Centrally located in Poipu near Shipwreck Beach, this property of 15 duplex bungalows resembles the South Pacific and old Hawaii.

«Gnarly Neal,» owner of Gnarly Neal's Ocean Instruction, hangs ten with Peter, talking about modern advances in surf boards, the older generation of students coming to learn to ride waves, and the shipwreck that's visible from the hotel during low tide.

Crystal blue lakes, «Champagne» pools and even a creepy old shipwreck to explore means you need a couple of nights to see it all, and if you ask me, the best way to do it is to camp out near the island's beaches.

Climb to the top of mainland Australia «s oldest lighthouse, 90 metres above the wild Southern Ocean and see where many tragic shipwrecks occurred on

Climb to the top of mainland Australia «s oldest lighthouse, 90 metres above the wild Southern Ocean and see where many tragic shipwrecks occurred on this isolated and rugged coastline.

Apollo Bay has an abundance of beautiful bush walks, waterfalls, 300 year old trees and expansive beaches to be enjoyed and we are well placed for those visiting the shipwreck coast, the 12 Apostles, Otway Fly Walk, Great Ocean Walk or travelling further to Warrnambool, on to South Australia or to Melbourne.

Join a scenic flight with 12 Apostles Helicopters to see the Bay of Islands, London Bridge or the entire Shipwreck Coast all the way to Australia's oldest lighthouse at Cape Otway.

Besides the fact, that you can dive at old shipwrecks and beautiful coral reefs in all kind of colours, you can also see various species of fish like Lord Howe Coralfish, Gold Ribbon Groupers and one of the world's largest stingray species.

You can visit an old shipwreck (Maheno Wreck), swim in the «Champagne Pools» or explore the beautiful Lake McKenzie in the middle of the jungle.

Fly over old growth rainforest and along the rugged shipwreck coast to the Twelve Apostles and Bay of Islands.

Wreck Beach, 2 km or 4.5 km loop Beginning at the Wreck Bay car park, take the 366 steps down to the beach and explore the shoreline to discover the old anchors of two 19th Century shipwrecks, the Marie Gabrielle and the Fiji.

Depending on the length of your flight, you might see not only the world - famous limestone stacks but also Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge, the Grotto, the Bay of Islands, and the entire Shipwreck Coast all the way to Cape Otway, site of the oldest lighthouse in Australia.

Then there's poor old Captain Haddock, long known as a drunk in Herge's original comic books, who's reduced here to a kid - friendly depressive shipwreck of a man.

The new Tomb Raider game serves as an origin story for 21 - year - old Croft, in which she is shipwrecked on a remote tropical island and has to fight for survival against the elements and a group of murderous aggressors.

In these recent works, Morley combines his signature subjects — ships and old airplanes, advertising images, the Second World War, England, and British and American history — with the epic themes of discoveries (of Bermuda, a British overseas territory, and America) and disasters (most notably shipwrecks).

What hooked me was stumbling on my husband's old criminal law texts and reading about the cases of sailors who survived shipwrecks and then