Hints and tips:
...Revellers can repair to local dives on the floating platforms of the harbour, or dance on the sand at Majilis Resort on Manda Island, opposite Shela....
...into the deep, while a lone eagle atop a satellite pole gazes across its domain....
...There are some young people in Veiholmen, among them 23-year-old Henrik Holberg, who guides sea eagle-spotting trips on his pristine RIB (rigid inflatable boat), one of the activities suggested by Up Norway...
...And occasionally swimming to offshore rocks to creep up on seals and sea otters. Mike puts the boat in gear and slides away from the shore....
...You should also go on a boat trip. On a good day you can spot whales, dolphins or porpoises, and if you look up you’ll be able to see enormous golden- and white-tailed eagles flying around too....
...On Rock Creek, we floated beneath lovely red cliffs and an eagle’s nest the size of a piano. I caught a cut-throat, which looked even more golden pink on a grey day....
...Yellow Egyptian vultures, majestic as eagles, swoop around, performing acrobatics at close range before hurtling off. They are quite unruffled by humans....
...They lie in various states of repair and include an abandoned 13th-century castle....
...Many today still struggle to stay open, with funds for repairs denied by councils and communities stepping in to shoulder the conservation efforts....
...The eagle dropped the calf, which scrambled up the mountainside followed by its mother, as the eagle swooped fruitlessly above....
...The reserve has more signs explaining local art history, a historic farming shed and a free bike-repair station....
...Here, using only men, mules and explosives, Clinton’s self-taught engineers built five consecutive locks to lower the canal and its boats down a 70ft ridge of hard rock called the Niagara Escarpment....
...There are sea caves hewn from glittering black rock, bald eagles perched high on clifftop pines, inland vales speckled with poppies and lilac asters....
...High in the sky, a black hawk eagle was being harassed by a sharp-shinned hawk....
...Rock, VA, US...
...Prowling inky streets, jazz clubs and eagles’-nest flats, Wong Howe’s ferociously alert camera casts Burt Lancaster’s powerbroker columnist JJ Hunsecker as a kind of angry stone idol, and tracks Tony Curtis...
...When I arrive, I find a cottage set back behind a big front yard strewn with rocks and building materials and a boat anchor....
...Our house creaks and rocks as if it’s an old boat at sea. Finally, my wife clarifies matters, shouting from upstairs that it’s an earthquake and to get under a doorway immediately....
...In some countries, the land might repair itself in a few years, but if you destroy a site in Newfoundland it will take hundreds of years to get back to where it was....
...It’s also a beautiful place, with white sand beaches, an iconic pitchstone ridge and a plethora of wildlife to spot — including eagles (golden and white-tailed)....
...But it is mostly rideable and brings you neatly back to Mui Wo for the boat ride home....
...I cleaned the pollack, cast the entrails onto the rocks and a sea-eagle flew up and took its share. “It was incredible....
...Hawk-eyed and eagle, their poise directly reflects that of the Bactrian Greeks who sculpted these images in Peshawar nearly two millennia ago....
...At sunrise the next morning, and every day after that, we sped off in an open boat from the marina at Koror, Palau’s largest town....
...Letter in response to this article: Colonialism to climate change is no great leap / From Beth G Raps, Eagle Rock, VA, US...
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