Sentences with phrase «on a raft»

In addition to the grand landscapes, there's some thrilling moments on the raft in the raging river that are extremely impressive for the time this movie was made.

The salty water lifted my feet to the surface and I immediately felt like I was floating on a raft.

Alternatively, you can choose to navigate the river on a raft or inner tube.

With the raft carrying all of your gear and the ability to hop on the raft for an afternoon if your feet need a break, the trail opens up to almost anyone.

You can dive up to twenty feet below the water's surface using our breathing tube, which is a long hose that connects to an air supply on a raft above.

The picture of your daughter on the raft, sipping her drink is precious!

I, like most of this eight - man team, have never been on a raft before.

Once on the raft and far from the shore, the real fun starts.

Please label it and give it to us the morning the trip starts and we will store on the raft for you during the day.

I will be floating in the pool every afternoon under the trees on a raft, enjoying the entire place to myself with two hot tubs and the pool.

Two hours of sculling on a raft of ducks moving with the tide is not unusual, and more than once the ash oar has snapped in his hands from the strain of pushing more than 1,000 pounds of boat, men, dogs, guns and ammunition through the water.

We all heard the horror stories when a friend of a friend went on a rafting trip in that foreign adventure, broke his leg and ended up getting airlifted to the nearest hospital.

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

The drama is adapted from Laura Hillenbrand's best - selling book about Louis Zamperini, who survived on a raft with two other men for 47 days.

The creatives at Motorola have been busily working on a raft of new products, although their product naming guy was clearly on holiday...

This work builds on a raft of teaching quality reforms we have underway with an unashamed focus on better preparing teachers to be classroom ready.

He demolishes his steak with the gusto of a man who recently lost 27 pounds in seven weeks for a role in Unbroken, an Angelina Jolie - directed film about second world war hero Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific after a plane crash, only to end up in a Japanese PoW camp.

But the movie stops short of showing the prayers and promises to God that helped this captive endure his time on the raft and in the camps.

First up, the Galaxy Tab 10.1's screen is the same size as those found on a raft of other 10in tablets, including the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Acer Iconia Tab A500 and Motorola Xoom.

You'll breathe through an easy - to - use regulator while your air supply floats on a raft at the surface — no bulky equipment or special certification required.

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.

It will go on the raft where it will not be accessible during the day so anything you want on the trail needs to go in a separate bag that the raft will carry or in a small camelback or backpack if you choose to wear one.

In Link's Awakening, Link gets caught out on the sea on his raft during a storm.

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

We reported last week on the raft of Democrats and Republicans threatening to run against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The film is his directorial follow - up to the critically - acclaimed Ex Machina with a cast boasting Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and arrives on a raft of positive reviews.

Her source material is Laura Hillenbrand's mega-bestseller about Olympic runner Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell), who endured 47 days marooned on a raft when his plane was shot down over the Pacific in WWII only to be incarcerated for over two years in the most brutal of Japanese POW camps.

He sets off on an expedition on a raft in 1947 with 6 crew and drifts across the ocean for 100 days.

He knows that he was a baby when he was placed on a raft with a parrot named Birdy and that they eventually washed up on the shore of an island.

Along with some warfare and the suffering experienced on the raft, are lengthy portrayals of his plight as a prisoner.

In addition, there is consultation on a raft of new regulations to relax development control under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (SI 1995/418).

For anyone who has ever been on a river trip, you know that your rafting guide is a major instigator of the fun and adventure on any rafting trip.

Once safety briefing is done, we get on the rafts.

Peter Hujar (1934 — 1987), Boy on Raft, 1978, gelatin silver print.

Alison Saar's monumental sculpture «Breach (large figure on raft)» is the centerpiece of a show whose themes are displacement and water.

Rafting down one of the great rivers of the US is an adventure in itself, but floating down the Mississippi on a raft made of trash sounds like an eco-adventure which is second to none, at least if you were raised with tales of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

Based on Raft and Juno, Kadena embeds a full smart contract language (Pact) into its blockchain that can be run as either public (plain text) or private (Double - Ratchet encrypted) transactions.

as you try to sneak up on rafted ducks.

The Wolffs» private lives dwindled as they spent more and more time taking on a raft of government agencies and non-profit entities.

Gradually you come upon more people drifting on rafts, and they also become attached to the group.

Accumulation (1971), which is executed with the dancers on their backs, has been performed in public spaces of all kinds, including on water, with the dancers floating on rafts as they methodically work through the piece's graduated gestures.

Many of us were left teary - eyed by the closing scenes of Titanic, as Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack slipped under the icy waters, leaving Rose (Kate Winslett) bobbing alone on that raft.

After making the treacherous journey to the U.S. on a raft, he met Matos's mother, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic.

The Tomkins» would bring Esprit employees on rafting trips during their tenure at the company, where Earth First!

President Trump sailed into office in January on a raft of promises about reviving the slow - moving American economy.

Jochabed, Moses» mother, practiced wild hope as she placed her baby on a raft of reeds, sending him across the waters of the Nile.

When asked by a reporter if police had gone too far by sending the agent on the rafting trip, Bloomberg responded «no.»

A Buddhist acquaintance from Japan, however, sees every home run as a metaphor for the arahant who has successfully crossed the sea of becoming on the raft of dharma.