Their pale buildings seem to grow out of the sea cliffs, with fierce-blue views in every direction.
The familiar golden sand beaches were totally black and no life existed on any of the sea cliffs.
There is the thickly wooded, deep-green, deeply mysterious Gargano Peninsula, which is all rocky harbours, magnetically blue sea and pale sea cliffs.
The hill in Kirkless, near Wigan, is one of the highest points in the region and home to plants normally found on sea cliffs.
Exhibits in the main hall, including the outdoor sea cliffs and a remodeled outdoor aquatheater, will open, and education programs will resume on a limited basis.
On a recent morning, walls and floors were ripped out of several exhibits, including the Sea Cliffs (much loved for its intimate views of walruses cavorting underwater) and the Alien Stingers building.
Numerous helicopter companies (most based in Lihu'e) offer up-in-the-air jaunts over waterfall-striped Mt Wai'ale'ale, the island's central shield volcano and one of the wettest spots on Earth, and the sheer-hewn sea cliffs of the Na Pali coast, accessible otherwise only by ocean kayak.
"If there's a reduction in the number of people jumping in the sea from cliffs, piers and harbour walls it will be deemed a success, " he said.
Tombstoning is when people jump unsupervised into the sea from places including cliffs and harbour walls.
Outside a crisp winter sun reflects on Plymouth Sound, a stunning amphitheatre of cliffs overlooking the sea.
But Falmouth Coastguard Watch Manager James Instance said people had been leaping from cliffs into the sea for generations.
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Our island fortunately had cliffs toward the sea where the 20-25 foot wave hit and it did come up on the island.
The islands are in fact the peaks of a sub-Atlantic mountain range that rises more than 4, 000 feet from the sea bed, forming sheer cliffs and often impassable terrain.
Ten storeys high, these wind-swept piles rise from the sea and abut steep, rocky cliffs.
Mr McCarter said he had stayed in the house because he liked its idyllic setting, nestled under the cliffs looking out to sea.
The north of La Palma is often considered the most beautiful part of the island, with fertile hills and rocky cliffs plunging into the sea.
Smiling, tattooed Marquesans riding bareback on horses will guide you to caves and mountain tops, where you can marvel at sheer cliffs plunging to the sea.
Looking up at its vertiginous cliffs from the foaming sea is overwhelming: rolling banks of sea mist tumble down from the slopes of the interior and birds wheel overhead.
Most visitors venture out with operators like Baja Paradise to see the whale sharks who live in the Sea of Cortez year round, or travel to the pink cliffs on the nearby island of Espiritu Santo, home to a colony of sea lions.
The tide was high, and for a hundred feet away from the shore, the water appeared to be the colour of green milk, the waves having sluiced chalk from the foreshore and cliffs, which stained the sea white.
Commercial Estates Group propose to demolish the existing buildings and construct a sea defence scheme in order to stabilise the cliffs in the Bay.
To the west were the massive cliffs of Garbh Eilean, falling several hundred feet almost sheer to the sea.
Thailand's Phang Nga Bay resembles an alien seascape, where towering limestone cliffs in improbable shapes carve the view into unfamiliar patterns of land, sea and air.
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