Sentences with phrase «of vertical cliffs»

It is along this section of the Great Ocean Road that the flat coastal plains end in a series of vertical cliffs, caverns, archways, blowholes and offshore rock stacks.

It is along this section of the Great Ocean Road the flat coastal plains terminate in a series of vertical cliffs, caverns, archways, blowholes and offshore rock stacks.

Hiking along the beach from East Point to Ford Point is impossible due to sections of vertical cliffs that drop directly into the ocean.

Hiking along the beach from East Point to Ford Point is impossible due to section of vertical cliffs that drop directly into the ocean.

A series of vertical cliffs and dolerite columns stand like huge, isolated hobgoblins of nature 120 metres above the valley floor.

If you have what it takes, step of a vertical cliff which is 1000 meters above sea level.

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Hicks, Jennifer HIRKANI»S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working La Leche League International, 2005 The title of this book was inspired by an ancient Indian tale about a young mother, Hirkani, who scaled down a 1,000 - foot vertical cliff in order to get to her baby to breastfeed.

For the millions of people who have taken up the sport of rock climbing, a cliff face is a challenge, a vertical puzzle solved only with the proper placement of hands and feet.

The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) might be the world's best climber, able to scale near - vertical cliffs with an ease rivaled only by the world's best human rock climbers — who have the advantage of safety equipment and opposable thumbs.

«But you can not make vertical cliffs and pinnacles up to 100 meters [300 feet] high out of sand.

Seabirds, which reflect the health of their marine ecosystems, often build their nests in inaccessible areas — wedged into vertical cliffs or on remote islands battered by intense waves.

Shot partially on the Greek islands of Skopelos and Skiathos, there isn't a young bride alive who won't dream of perching on a donkey for the near - vertical climb to a tiny white - washed cliff - top chapel whose doors frame an Aegean sunset to say «I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do.»

The game also has a lot of vertical depth — meaning you will often find yourself at the bottom of a canyon, unable to see the terrain beyond the cliff walls.

Despite its elegant profile, for whatever incomprehensible reason the front of the HCD - 14 is a vertical cliff, as unpleasant to think about as the politician's metaphorical «fiscal cliff» and potentially as destructive to Hyundai's future.

15 Chrome band across the tail joining the rear lamps is a nice punctuation of the tall vertical rear cliff face.

Originating on remote islands of arctic Norway, the dog was used to wrestle and retrieve live puffin birds from the crevices of steep vertical cliffs.

Its multi-colored volcanic layers terminate in vertical cliffs that plunge straight into the Sea of Cortez.

Find it close to a series of near - vertical cliffs south of the Msikaba River.

If you're not up for the boat trip, you can still gaze out at the trio's vertical limestone cliffs during one of Sukorn's notably marvellous sunsets.

This mid-size island off the coast of Trang province boasts a pair of good beaches within easy boating distance of a sea cave opening to a stripe of coral sand rimmed by vertical cliffs.

Accompany our experienced guides past the 300 ft vertical cliffs of North Head into the Pacific Ocean.

Your stay in the locality of Chivay, gives you better opportunities to enjoy the landscape of one of the world's deepest canyons (3,400 meters, at its deepest point), with the impressive panorama of its great river, its vertical cliffs, Incan benched terraces, in current agricultural production, as well as its typical villages and customs, and all of this crowned by the dominion of the condors» flight.

Reputedly the final resting place of the biblical Saint Zaccheus this remarkable vertical village offers numerous historic sites to explore, whilst the views of the Alzou canyon and surrounding countryside from the top of the cliff are magnificent.

Its Cabo da Roca is the famed location of many sea voyages and exploration missions with spectacular vertical cliffs rising up out of the sea.

The second activity is rock climbing and Cat Ba is an ideal destination for this because of its rugged limestone mountains and high, almost vertical cliffs.

As you descend, you will notice that the wall crests between 40 - 55 ft and continues as a vertical cliff to a depth of 90 - 100 ft before receding at a 55 ° angle.

Offering silky white sand beaches on one side of the island and a rocky vertical cliff on the other side, Rawa is the perfect place to sit and unwind.

Be dwarfed by the 70 - metre high vertical cliffs and marvel at Gog and Magog, the nicknames given to the giant limestone stacks rising up out of the sea.

Even the admirable Revkin doesn't get it quite right: On horizontal surfaces, observations and modeling show a role for melting in both the baseline ablation and the sensitivity of ablation to precipitation and temperature; melting is the dominant ablation mechanism on vertical ice cliffs; and though Kaser et al find «no evidence» about rising temperatures, it is only because the in situ studies don't cover a long enough period to detect trends.

Having vertical structures sticking out of the lake in close proximity to the cliffs will, especially in winter when ice floes collect, change the currents and will possibly increase the rate of erosion.

They burrow nests into vertical cliffs and banks, and may make colonies with up to 2,000 nests according to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

One of them is on an almost vertical cliff - face.