Sentences with phrase «on nearby islands»

The local staff working in the restaurant, driving the speed boats, and making up the rooms come from villages on nearby islands, and all helped in the construction of the resort, which is mostly furnished with handcrafted items made from driftwood materials.

Most of the dive sites are located within a short boat distance of Bohol on the nearby Islands.

Ruins of native villages and culturally modified trees can be found on nearby islands.

However, it is highly unlikely that other extinct Lord Howe Island species will be found on nearby islands.

Our menu reflects the availability of what the fishermen catch and what produce I can buy here or on nearby islands.

Hurricane Irma sideswiped Puerto Rico on Sept. 6, leaving more than 1 million people without power but causing no deaths or widespread damage like it did on nearby islands.

During an Oct. 23, exercise, several MV - 22 Osprey tilt - rotors and CH - 53E Super Stallion helicopters transported a Marine raiding party to secure a strategically - important airstrip on a nearby island.

Some 600 guests were flown in on private jets and put up on the nearby island of Virgin Gorda.

A year later, Columbus built his first town on the nearby island of Hispaniola, where the Taino numbered at least 60,000 and possibly as many as 8 million, according to some estimates.

I think you can camp on a nearby island though If you're looking for a gorgeous island up here with a lovely resort I'd recommend Fitzroy Island xxxx

But despite the love from Osh and their neighbor Miss Maggie, Crow is consumed with finding her origins, and so she embarks on a search that leads her to a former leper colony on a nearby island — and here's where things get really exciting.

With his wife, Paola, in agreement with the plan, Brunetti is off to stay by himself in a villa that's owned by a wealthy relative just a short boat trip away on the nearby island of Sant» Erasmo, in the Venetian Lagoon.

One look at the impressive rock formations found on the nearby island of Lanai and you will swear you've just signed up to become an extra in a John Ford western.

Guests can fly fish right outside their door, opt for scuba diving or snorkeling excursions just 20 minutes away at the second largest barrier reef in the world, or hop on a boat or a plane and play 18 holes of golf on a nearby island.

Services operated by Sindo Ferry, Batam Fast and Majestic Fast Ferry lines make short, daily trips south to the ports of Batam Centre and Sekupang on the nearby island of Batam.

But the beach that captured my heart was Anse Source d'Argent on the nearby island La Digue.

Between the resort pool, your private pool, a small beach with kayaks and hammocks, and free boat trips to the beach on a nearby island, you will have plenty to do.

Romantics can be dropped off at a secluded beach on a nearby island with a picnic hamper.

No neach here but they do rent the beach on a nearby island and prvide a free baot service for guests.

Within the estate is the excellent Breeze restaurant, and guests also have access to the sports, dining, and wellness facilities at the Point Yamu by COMO resort hotel, including the hotel's beach club on the nearby island, Koh Naka Yai.

A third afternoon dive is also possible at an extra cost and this often includes a picnic lunch on a nearby island beach.

In June, major collector Dakis Joannou opened a branch of his private art museum, Deste Foundation, on the nearby island of Hydra.

Not exact matches

One final note about being adventurous: during a management meeting on Necker a few years ago, we took a boat ride to nearby Mosquito Island.

Since then, he has been responsible for a majority of the real estate purchases that have gone down on the island, including the island's two Four Seasons resorts and 21 residential properties nearby.

The operation would transfer coal from rail cars to barges, which would then carry it to nearby Texada Island where it would be loaded on ships and transported to Asia.

The couple has since committed $ 130 million to create an island park nearby, on the Hudson River.

And species in the Galapagos Islands seemed related to those on the nearby mainland.

Look to the chalkboard for lesser - known cuts like coulotte, tip sirloin, and gracilis — all butchered in - house from cattle raised on Erickson's farm on nearby Whidbey Island.

On nearby Vancouver Island, colleagues at The Fairmont Empress decided that a food as simple and beloved as peanut butter could be elevated with culinary care.

Officers with the Suffolk Police Department on Long Island on Sunday responded to a 911 call that several ducklings had fallen into a storm drain, with their mother waiting nearby.

The city held a ground breaking in 2013 and originally planned to open it in 2014, but it was pushed back because of numerous delays on the opening of the new Staten Island Courthouse nearby.

Neighborhood pubs are an Island staple and nearby breweries provide locals with unique choices on tap.

FISH TALES: Start your trip just a few hundred feet away from Gibraltar on nearby South Bass Island, at Stone Lab's sister facility, the Aquatic Visitors Center.

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

IT LIVES Although darker than those found on Lord Howe Island, these stick insects, from nearby Ball's Pyramid, are the same species.

Gary Polis and Stephen Hurd of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, surveyed the spiders on 23 islands around Angel de 1a Guarda in the Gulf of California and at four sites on the nearby Baja California peninsula (see Map).

Similar cycles have been recently witnessed on the nearby volcanic island of Montserrat.

The Observatory keeps a close watch not only on the Mount Vesuvius, but also on the volcanoes of the nearby regions of Campi Flegrei and the Island of Ischia.

The researchers spotted a segment of DNA on chromosome 8 that appeared in the colorblind islanders; then they tested another 60 people from Pingelap and nearby islands to narrow the search down further.

Conservation geneticists studying the DNA of tortoises on nearby Isabela Island have stumbled upon a tortoise with clear signs of Pinta ancestry.

The composition of this lava dome is different from the magma that caused the giant caldera to erupt — it shows the same chemical characteristics as the current post-caldera volcano on the nearby Satsuma Iwo - jima Island.

The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species of large gull; Herring Gull, Great Black - backed Gull and Lesser Black - backed Gull on the Hebridean island of Canna, and the relationship between these gull populations and the fall in the quantity of fish landed in the nearby harbour of Mallaig.

Ferries from nearby Antigua can take you to the island or around it, depending on your appetite for risk.

English Nature expects the new marsh to grow in the manner of Barrow Hill marsh on nearby Mersea Island, which has formed since the sea invaded during the great floods along the Essex coast in 1953.

By comparing the data with a study of the nearby Ducie and Oeno atolls conducted in 1991, the team extrapolated that there is between 200 and 2,000 times more trash on Henderson now than there was on those neighboring islands back then.

«The effects [on health] are likely to be small and limited to Mururoa and nearby island ecosystems,» it says.

This boosts the energy level of electron pairs on the island, causing them to break their superconducting bond to one another and hop to a nearby probe, which then channels them to a detector.

The cores are also present at a site on nearby Triquet Island occupied 14,000 years ago, Fedje said.

From 2009 to 2010, she put out seed baskets in the jungle on Guam and three nearby islands to collect seeds of two fleshy - fruit tree species and compared the patterns between islands with birds and Guam.

In a bid to rescue it, conservationists in 1971 began collecting all the tortoises they could find on Española — just 14 — and took them to nearby Santa Cruz island to breed in captivity.