Sentences with phrase «ring of cliffs»

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Members of Congress are ringing in the New Year down in Washington, D.C. racing against time to get a deal in place that averts sending the country over the so - called fiscal cliff.

Fraser island is a place of exceptional beauty, with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by strikingly coloured sand cliffs, and over 100 freshwater lakes, some tea - coloured and others clear and blue all ringed by white sandy beaches.

After checking into our hotel and having lunch, embark on a spectacular hike along the rim of the caldera, ringed by soaring cliffs that overlook the cobalt sea below.

Allans Beach is among the remotest and most overlooked of those, several miles down an unpaved road to a quiet stretch of sand ringed with jagged cliffs and bright green moss.

Just off West Papua's Bird's Head Peninsula, and comprising the main islands of Misool, Batanta, Waigeo and Salawati, known as the Four Kings, Raja Ampat also includes over a thousand smaller islands and islets covered in lush jungle and ringed with towering cliffs and resplendent beaches.

I can easily imagine that PaddikJ & Mosher are exactly right in their analysis of Gleick because it rings familiar — I've been down that road, a few exits, anyway, and if I never followed it into the desert or over a cliff, it is at least in part because I'm not surrounded by people who share my delusions.

The white ring of bleached rock on the once - red cliffs that hold Lake Powell indicate the drop in water level over the past decade — the result of repeated winters with low snowfall.