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Some lucky people also come across leopards basking on the rocks early in the mornings.
Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below.
They reported bodies everywhere, in the water and on the rocks, in caves and at abandoned campsites, the survivors disfigured by ugly pockmarks.
I remember sea frets, I remember walking down there at night, I remember sitting on the rocks with the waves crashing inches away.
My tackle seemed entirely appropriate in the garage but proved cumbersome on the rocks.
Below, crabs sidestepped on the rocks and all kinds of fish darted by, making the snorkelling superb.
The valley of rocks still bears the marks of early pioneers who wrote their names with axle grease on the rocks.
Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks.
There were a lot of rocks to pick through, and it was a ways down, but once I perched on the rocks by the waterside it was worth it.
I love to just sit on the rocks for hours and watch and listen to the ocean.
She and her little piece of flotsam were going to be smashed to bits on the rocks!
We drank bourbon on the rocks or straight shots of tequila or double vodka Martinis.
They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
Pour all into shaker filled with ice and serve on the rocks, or steam the first two ingredients and add Chivas.
The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish.
There was a huge bombora breaking to our left, and huge seas crashing on the rocks around the cliffs to our right.
And Warne has the added problem of a personal crisis to deal with, his wife reportedly on the plane back to Oz, their marriage on the rocks.
Scattered on the rocks around it is a rough circle of river smooth pebbles with holes in them.
Carefully but confidently, I step on the rocks that still emerge from the surf and climb back to the sandy beach.
A mess on the rocks is sure to put you off your cream tea until a couple of tides have cleaned it up.
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An eider duck's nest was found fully one hundred yards from the water, unsheltered on the rocks, with five eggs and clean down.
There was no trace of the body in the waters, no drop of blood on the rocks.
I enhanced the likeness very much, last Friday morning, by singing a barcarole on the rocks.
Here, as at lanzarote, they were taken for Algerines, and the guns on the rocks began to fire at them.
Ten bob I got for Molly's combings when we were on the rocks in Holles street.
Something flopping on the rocks gave a mewling cry and somersaulted back into the water.
His face was not much the worse for its battering on the rocks.
We found they had left, and there was no water on the rocks.
The old Whig Party went to pieces on the rocks of sectionalism.
The sun had nearly reached the meridian, and his scorching rays fell full on the rocks, which seemed themselves sensible of the heat.
Early in the morning we would pick few unripe but sweet carobs and pound them with a clean stone on the rocks.
Boris is sorer than a boiled owl at being run on the rocks by a girl.
They must keep at least two miles out, or theyll get spitted on the rocks.
Nothing showed on the rocks, nothing showed on the face of the cliff.
Then he tossed his tin dishes away and they fell clattering on the rocks.
Long, slow swells were running, and they boomed inshore on the rocks.
The Southern Cross is on the rocks, be sure of it, and good men with her.
Now I feel as if I had to get out on the rocks or the fields or the water and spout them.
The pictographs on the rocks are zoomorphic representations of birds, animals, and deities made with natural pigments and excrement.
A fair ship is she, but rudderless, and the wind blows on the rocks.
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