| Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below. |
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| Along the coast the mountains gradually merge with the shore. |
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| She'd never heard the sound of sea gulls crying by the shore. |
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| The toad has terrestrial habits, spending most of its time on shore. |
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| The compromises and corruption on shore fail to contaminate or alter the joy-drenched, adrenalated play in the ocean. |
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| Detached breakwaters are shore protection structures, created to build up sandy material in order to accommodate drawdown in storm conditions. |
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| Upon reaching Airth on the south shore and Kincardine on the north, the river begins to widen and becomes the Firth of Forth. |
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| One participant was Sir William fitz Warin, constable of Urquhart Castle standing on the western shore of Loch Ness. |
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| They arrived in Darien to find the burnt timbers of the Olive Branch rotting on the shore. |
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| The main arterial route along the loch is the A82 road which runs the length of its western shore. |
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| He worked out that shell fragments are rolled by waves towards the shore, where they are broken up further. |
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| The chief officer and a boat's crew perished while attempting to reach the shore. |
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| Very large prey such as swans may be dragged along the surface of the water to the shore to be consumed. |
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| Whitelee Wind Farm, Europe's largest on shore wind farm, is located near Eaglesham, to the south of East Kilbride. |
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| Major differences from Scots law include shore ownership rights, important for pipelines and buried cables. |
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| Henry II rushed to north Wales for a few days to shore up defences there, before returning to his main army now gathering in Oswestery. |
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| On the west shore is Hawarden Airport and the large Airbus factory at Broughton. |
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| It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. |
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| He found the nugget in water about five metres deep, about five metres from the shore. |
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| However, a range of tough shore species were seen to survive exposure to bulk oil and lingering residues. |
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| Wave heights in the scale are for conditions in the open ocean, not along the shore. |
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| During the winter months grey seals can be seen hauled out on rocks, islands, and shoals not far from shore, occasionally coming ashore to rest. |
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| Here, dolphins drive fish towards fishermen waiting along the shore and signal the men to cast their nets. |
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| The dolphins drive a school of fish towards the shore, where humans await with nets. |
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| When they encounter a shoal of fish, they work as a team to herd them towards the shore to maximize the harvest. |
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| The dolphins then crawl around on their sides, consuming the fish they washed up on shore. |
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| These were prefabricated on shore and put in place using balanced cantilever methods. |
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| Malwani cuisine is a specialty of the tropical area which spans from the shore of Deogad Malwan to the southern Maharashtrian border with Goa. |
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| Shelf ice occurs when floating pieces of ice are driven by the wind piling up on the windward shore. |
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| These, along with houses on the shore side of the main road, would make way for the war construction the village would see. |
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| On its northern shore is County Down and on its southern shore is County Louth. |
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| The northern shore is in Northern Ireland and includes the most significant mudflats in the lough, and an area of salt marsh. |
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| While the bay is largely made up of intertidal flats, there is a significant area of salt marsh on the western shore. |
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| A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake. |
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| The geological composition of rock and soil dictates the type of shore which is created. |
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| Three years prior to Balcomb's discovery, research in the Bahamas showed 14 beaked whales washed up on the shore. |
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| Harbor seals must spend a great deal of time on shore when moulting, which occurs shortly after breeding. |
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| We pulled over to the shore, dragged the boat up ontop the sandbar, stretched our legs and ate some sandwiches. |
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| Intertidal zones, the areas that are close to the shore, are constantly being exposed and covered by the ocean's tides. |
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| Many species here are scavengers, living off of sea life that is washed up on the shore. |
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| Unlike oceanography, hydrography will include shore features, natural and manmade, that aid in navigation. |
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| Spain claims the sovereignty over the Perejil Island, a small, uninhabited rocky islet located in the South shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. |
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| Both the depth and the distance from shore strongly influence the biodiversity of the plants and animals present in each region. |
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| Oscillating Water Column devices can be located on shore or in deeper waters offshore. |
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| The littoral zone is the part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore. |
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| Shallower regions of the sublittoral zone, extending not far from the shore, are sometimes referred to as the subtidal zone. |
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| Long shore occurs in a 90 to 80 degree backwash so it would be presented as a right angle with the wave line. |
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| Channel location variance and amount may also influence the impact of long shore drift on a tidal inlet as well. |
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| The two dominant cultures are English on the north shore of the Channel, French on the south. |
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| I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days. |
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| She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore. |
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| There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. |
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| Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore. |
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| The surf was not heavy, and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing. |
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| Low salinity surface coastal waters move offshore, and deeper, denser high salinity waters move in shore. |
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| Lignitic coal is present in small quantities within seams, and can be seen on the cliffs and shore at Whitecliff Bay. |
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| On February 26, 1606, he made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the modern town of Weipa. |
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| Previously a lot of this coal was too deep for conventional mining, or too far off shore. |
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| Later, the Norse fought for control of the Baltic against Wendish tribes dwelling on the southern shore. |
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| The Teutonic Order gained control over parts of the southern and eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they set up their monastic state. |
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| During World War II, Germany reclaimed all of the southern and much of the eastern shore by occupying Poland and the Baltic states. |
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| Some Saxons already lived along the Saxon shore of Gaul as Roman foederati. |
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| During the Late Roman period it is likely that the shore forts played some role in continental trade alongside their defensive functions. |
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| The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake. |
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| He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in. |
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| The northern shore, between 1851 and 1970, lost 928 feet because of erosion. |
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| In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore. |
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| The triumphant Persians also managed to recover the great fortress of Lenkoran, on the Caspian shore. |
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| The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. |
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| In 1835 John Ashley was on the shore at Clevedon with his son who asked him how the people on Flat Holm could go to church. |
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| At the south end of the lake is South Windermere Sailing Club, based at Fell Foot park on the east shore. |
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| The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. |
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| The present day common lies parallel to the shore from Clarence Pier to Southsea Castle. |
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| Even the famed Ffestiniog Railway acquired a Baldwin locomotive to shore up the fleet working the Welsh Highland Railway which it now owned. |
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| It was common for seafaring Viking ships to tow or carry a smaller boat to transfer crews and cargo from the ship to shore. |
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| This is, however, absurd, since its shore might arbitrarily be increased and in any case varies with the tide. |
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| He ordered her to move closer to the shore, disembarked her crew and emptied her cargo holds, and then burned and sank the vessel. |
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| Such restrictions on shore leave coupled with reduced time in port by many ships translate into longer periods at sea. |
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| Situated in Scotland's Central Belt, Edinburgh lies on the Firth of Forth's southern shore. |
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| Similar to the shore forts, the fortress was built to protect Britannia from raiders. |
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| Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth. |
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| The lake districts form part of the Baltic Ridge, a series of moraine belts along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea. |
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| Rommel believed that Germany's best chance was to stop the invasion at the shore. |
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| However, few arrived in advance of the infantry, and many sank before reaching the shore, especially at Omaha. |
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| Meanwhile, infantry began clearing the heavily fortified houses along the shore and advanced on targets further inland. |
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| The English North Sea coast is an important area of bird life and is a habitat for many shore and wading birds. |
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| A memorial to this has been constructed on the shore at Lamlash, paid for by a Canadian descendant of the emigrants. |
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| Many of Bermuda's few hotels are located along the south shore of the island. |
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| Many nearby reefs are readily accessible from shore by snorkellers, especially at Church Bay. |
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| Named one of the Ultimate Beaches by Caribbean Travel and Life, Seven Mile Beach is on the western shore of Grand Cayman Island. |
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| A third came sufficiently near to see their house, but did not try to send a boat on shore. |
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| Sailing vessels are now required to anchor out and can no longer tie up to the old whaling piers on shore. |
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| The Russians were reduced to scuttling their warships as blockships, after stripping them of their guns and men to reinforce batteries on shore. |
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| It would take 20 minutes to transport the men to shore using the LCU and Mexeflote. |
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| An attack by jellyfish changed his mind, and he returned quickly to the shore. |
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| A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land. |
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| A stricken ship within 3 miles of the shore had to fly at the main mast a yellow and black flag borne quarterly from sunrise to sunset. |
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| Originally, this was the length of a cannon shot, hence the portion of an ocean that a sovereign state could defend from shore. |
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| Although of significantly less economic importance, strata deposited along the shore of paleolakes sometimes contain coal seams. |
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| The plan was to liberate the Waalbrug from the northern shore, which they managed to do, but with great losses. |
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| Against the huge boulderstones which lay scattered about on the shore, the mighty waves broke incessantly in the maddest and most diversified manner. |
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| Gravesend on the opposite shore had long been a port of entry for shipping, all of which had used the river itself for loading and unloading of cargo and passengers. |
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| The naval shore establishment at Faslane is HMS Neptune, Naval personnel appointed to the base who do not belong to a seagoing vessel make up Ship's Company. |
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| At another signal from Barelegs, their tails gradually eglomerated, and all joyfully made away from the shore, landing in the same order about seventy yards lower down. |
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| These narratives record that Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, observed Simon and Andrew fishing, and called them to discipleship. |
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| Meanwhile on shore you get all pumped because your line is jiggling and you are completely unaware of the social protocol of fishdom occurring below the water line. |
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| In the 15th century, a small chapel was built close to the shore. |
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| Artificial headlands are also shore protection structures, which are created in order to provide a certain amount of protection to beaches or bays. |
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| A court case in the Free State in 1923 relating to fishing rights in Lough Foyle held that the Free State's territorial waters ran right up to the shore of County Londonderry. |
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| The English Channel is far more densely populated on the English shore. |
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| The MAIB report makes it clear that the harbour controllers were informed of impending disaster by shore observers before the crew were themselves aware. |
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| Located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore, it is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. |
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| The expedition descended towards the shore for a short reconnaissance trip, thus becoming the first Europeans to navigate the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the New World. |
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| Energy removed from the waves may also affect the shoreline, resulting in a recommendation that sites remain a considerable distance from the shore. |
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| Until recently lifeboat crews were called to duty using a firework rocket which was launched from the shore base and which exploded with a loud bang. |
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| Sand is largely affected by the oscillatory force of breaking waves, the motion of sediment due to the impact of breaking waves and bed shear from long shore current. |
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| Baie Fine is located on the northwestern coast of Georgian Bay of Lake Huron in Ontario, and Huron Bay is located on the southern shore of Lake Superior in Michigan. |
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| Rommel believed that the Normandy coast could be a possible landing point for the invasion, so he ordered the construction of extensive defensive works along that shore. |
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| The Baltic states on the eastern shore were annexed by the Soviet Union. |
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| The water then follows the northern shore until Hagnau am Bodensee. |
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| This is important for archaeologists since a site that was coastal in the Nordic Stone Age now is inland and can be dated by its relative distance from the present shore. |
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| When the enormous mass of the continental ice sheet retreated, the Great Lakes began gradually moving south due to isostatic rebound of the north shore. |
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| Cormorants nest in colonies around the shore, on trees, islets or cliffs. |
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| Many land animals also make much use of the shore and intertidal habitats. |
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| The Royal Navy has named one ship and two shore establishments HMS King Alfred, and one of the first ships of the US Navy was named USS Alfred in his honour. |
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| Then again the heaving bosom of the Mediterranean, clothes strewn along the shore, running naked into the sea while wind-exported Andalusian odors spice the insatiate night! |
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| But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life. |
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| Seven Canadian sites were assessed, the most promising being Churchill, Manitoba, but the waters were too shallow to allow ships to approach close to shore. |
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| Of this latter sort I have seen sixty on the shore in a flock together. |
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| Off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland the fleet ran into a series of powerful westerly winds, which drove many of the damaged ships further towards the lee shore. |
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| The English also took advantage of Spain's overly complex strategy that required coordination between the invasion fleet and the Spanish army on shore. |
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| The southern limit of Wright's zero isobase should intersect the north-west coast of England 125 km further north in the vicinity of the southern shore of Morecambe Bay. |
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| Until modern times, many ships and their passengers were lost along the treacherous coastline from Howth to Dun Laoghaire, less than a kilometre from shore. |
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| He twice crossed the Atlantic, before returning to serve under his uncle as the commander of Suckling's longboat, which carried men and dispatches to and from the shore. |
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| They may be composed of clay, silt, sand, or gypsum, eroded from the basin floor or shore, transported up the concave side of the dune, and deposited on the convex side. |
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| The Reserve includes a visitor centre at Burrafirth, in the old lighthouse shore station, as well as a boardwalk that extends out onto the moorland. |
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| Groynes are shore protection structures, placed at equal intervals along the coastline in order to stop coastal erosion and generally cross the intertidal zone. |
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| A continuous coastal path, the Wales Coast Path, was opened in May 2012 along the entire Welsh shore under the auspices of the Countryside Council for Wales. |
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| Montserrat is known for its coral reefs and its caves along the shore. |
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| Bottlenose dolphins herded the swimmers together and surrounded them for 40 minutes, preventing the shark from attacking, as they slowly swam to shore. |
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| In 2001, redevelopment of the HMS Vernon naval shore establishment began as a complex of retail outlets, clubs, pubs, and a large shopping centre known as Gunwharf Quays. |
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| Between 1957 and 1971, California shore stations processed 386 whales. |
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| Vessels The Royal Marines operate a varied fleet of military watercraft designed to transport troops and material from ship to shore or conduct river or estuary patrols. |
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