The shallows lapped from different directions at the tree as if almost teething on it.
The Blade's alphabet islands live in the shallows, barely traveling at all with each depression.
While there certainly are open-ocean predators, most shark threats are in the shallows and near food sources.
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There were bees, and the angle of the sun made the water of the shallows look dark.
The primitive fish mouth straining for water and finding it as my son releases it in the shallows.
The sea trout, if not the salmon, began to snatch and tear off with them to the reedy shallows.
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As the waves approached the shallows, it was possible to see them rise in height and crash onto the shoreline.
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Not five minutes after landing we were on the banks of the Mara River, flanked by 6m-long crocodiles and hundreds of hippos wallowing in the shallows.
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Bridges knows its twists and turns, its shallows and cypress stands perhaps better than anyone -- he even knows where the big bass hunker down.
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The hardest part is not the actual hooking of the fish, but getting over the knee-buckling sensation of actually seeing a five-pound trout cruising the shallows.
At lunch, its waterside picnicstyle tables are filled with customers watching seals frolic in the shallows of Loch Glendhu while eating crab, battered haddock or sole.
Steering between stone weirs and hidden eddies, the boatman points out wildlife along the riverbanks: shelducks in the shallows, water buffalo in the grass, a grey heron hidden among the reeds.
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We began our slow ascent through the shallows of the first group of waterfalls, the cool water reaching up to our ankles and providing welcome relief against the heat of the morning sun.
They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.
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After a fiery Goan curry lunch, or a sunset cocktail, served on the fort ramparts, look in on the in-fort chapel, then dip your toes in the shallows across the river at Aswem beach.
On a recent trip, guests at the lodge shuffled down the path, through the scented tropical garden and onto the river bank, where they clambered into launches and headed off into the shallows of the New River.
Get there early enough and you can stand with other beachgoers in the shallows as a dozen of the friendly creatures trawl just out of reach, peeking up out of the water at you with one eye.
The beach for most Australians is not just a place to cool off on a hot day, it is a place for the tentative dips of the toes in the shallows of early childhood and a place where teenage rites of passage played out.
Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays.
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