Sentences with phrase «small rocky»

Luckily, I had time to roll out of the way and instead of hitting its target, the creature slammed into a rock formation, destroying it in the process and leaving nothing but a small rocky platform behind.

The dive does not cover the whole area but instead concentrates on the sandy / rubble / coral slopes on the western side of this small rocky island.

The small rocky cliff to its south provides great views over the island's main surf breaks, namely Shipwrecks and Lacerations, together with the beautiful sunsets over mainland Bali afar.

The cliffs rise steeply toward South Stack and as they gather height they reveal small rocky bays.

You can even walk down to small rocky beach at Rendezvous Bay, for wonderful snorkeling right in your neighborhood.

Offshore you can see three small rocky islands, and further in the distance, Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan, while to the southwest you can see Padang Bai.

This lively town, settled on the side of almost seven kilometres of beach interspersed with small rocky capes, houses all that is required to spend a memorable holiday in Samui.

A small rocky beach located in the middle of the San Clemente Beach Trail.

It is estimated that there are something like 200 islands around the Krabi coastline, many are small rocky outcrops that rise precipitously out of the sea and have no landing access.

These beaches range in size and surfaces, with some beaches such as the Baths of Aphrodite beach being a pebble beach, Latchi beach is long and sandy and between Lara and Cape Arnaoutis there are lots of small rocky and sandy beaches.

The other four sites included here are small rocky islands off the coast of Bali that offer some of the most breath - taking diving in Bali.

«Yak» means «giant» in Thai, but giant is the one word that doesn't come to mind when you first see this small rocky outcrop of an island.

There are four types of diving environments in the archipelago: first are the shallow inshore fringing island reefs where visibility is often poor but the diversity of marine life is unsurpassed; second are the offshore fringing reefs where the visibility is considerably better, and the coral much healthier; third are the pinnacles and small rocky islands which rise from the depths and attract larger marine life such as sharks and rays; and fourth are the banks which rise up from depths of over 300 meters and attract different types of marine life altogether.

This archipelago also contains some of the most diverse and interesting marine ecosystems in the world: offshore fringing reefs which present a better visibility, healthy corals and small rocky islands that attract sharks and rays and countless number of marine species.

It is one of 2 small rocky islands to the south of Phi Phi that both have good diving.

My personal favourite is along the Eagle Bay to Meelup Road, which links these two outstanding beaches, also passing the small rocky coves around Point Picquet, offering glimpses of Eagle Bay through the trees as you approach the village.

At the lake you'll find a small rocky beach area and a great spot for a dip in the cool water if you've packed swim suits with you.

The Royal Park Albatros is a 3 - star hotel within walking distance of a small rocky beach, set in a peaceful location in the Golf del Sur, Tenerife.

The first European to set foot in what is now California, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, came ashore in 1542 at La Playa, probably at a small rocky peninsula called Ballast Point.

Sitting in a half lotus on a small rocky island named Koh Farn off the north east coast of the island and connected to mainland Koh Samui via a causeway, the 12 metre high buddha image is lit up at night providing a spectacular sight.

It features hundreds of small rocky islands and brilliant turquoise blue water.

Big Buddha temple sits majestically on a small rocky island off Koh Samui's north - eastern corner.

The reserve is known for the Fishbowl, which is a small rocky cove right off the side of the road.

All things considered I'd rather deal with the small rocky bodies heading towards earth.

By astronomers» reckoning, such powerful displays of star fury may explain why we've been discovering small rocky worlds so close to other stars — perhaps they are the charred husks of what were once mighty gas giants.

What I would desperately like to know is whether or not it has the small rocky bodies on the inside too.

The historic discovery of a small rocky world orbiting our sun's nearest stellar neighbor could transform humanity's interstellar future — but what does this alien world look like?

«It looked out to about 3,000 light - years distance, looking to characterize how many planets have stars around them, and then are they small rocky ones or big gas planets like Jupiter, and so on.

Red dwarfs are known to play host to small rocky exoplanets, a fact that makes these locations very interesting in the search for habitable «Earth - like» exoplanets.

In a new study headed by scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Cornell University, computer simulations have been run to figure out the possible characteristics of the small rocky world that was discovered orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.

We can rule out gas giants at Barnard's Star thanks to continuing Doppler monitoring, but we can't yet rule out small rocky planets of the kind we are now turning up around other M - dwarfs in data from the Kepler mission.

We could be looking at a galaxy with a dominance of small rocky worlds.

Stars A and B were selected as two of the top 100 target stars for NASA's indefinitely postponed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) to directly image small rocky planets in Earth - type habitable orbits.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

They hope to obtain images of this small rocky object that are as good as the snapshots of another -LSB-...]

In the Solar System, small rocky planets such as the Earth orbit near the Sun, whereas gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are found much further out.

It will scour the sky for small rocky worlds around nearby stars, and is expected to find hundreds.

The results are beginning to show that small rocky planets are the most common of all planet types in the catalog, making up as much as 25 %.

Starting with 12 Kepler candidates believed to be small rocky worlds, the BLENDER analysis whittled them down to eight new exoplanets with radiuses smaller than 2.7 times Earth's, all believed to be in the habitable zone.

It speculates that 1 per cent of small rocky planets are «habitable» and continues as if life has inevitably emerged on them.

A more appropriate way to put this might be that life will emerge on small rocky planets with a probability of 1 per cent.

The seeming abundance of rocky super-Earths lends support to the core accretion model of planet formation, in which small rocky bodies collide and clump together to grow into these objects.

There are small rocky lumps close to the sun and larger, icier bodies in the cold outer recesses.

Astronomers infer the presence of small rocky objects that give rise to such planets by detecting warm disks of dusty particles girdling young stars.

The basic architecture of our solar system, where things go in circles, and there are small rocky planets close to the sun and big massive gas giants far from the sun, is certainly not the only architecture.

The Kepler 90 solar system is like a cinched - up version of our own: Small rocky planets hug the star most tightly, while larger planets hang back.

As with other smaller rocky worlds such as Pluto, Ceres has had its surprises, showing evidence for more geological activity than had previously been thought.

Not exact matches

Tidal, which has had a rocky time since its relaunch under the ownership of rapper Jay - Z, got a small victory the last couple of days thanks to an exclusive release of Kanye West's latest album and a special promotion for the service from Beyonce.

As small businesses built on the spirit of entrepreneurship grow fast - and by the nature of their set up do experience some rocky times - it's very important to develop a dialogue and constantly seek feedback.

«The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface that favours the accumulation of rich soil in the crevices.