The beaches and the creeks and the broad flats of cordgrass and phragmites are a widespread racket of bird noise, the sky above the shoreline effervesces with fliers, the breezes send ripples over the water and through the reeds.
Through the afternoon, we shuffled onto a second lake, down a narrow creek, through the woods and across a broad frozen marsh.
In the Bangladeshi delta region, the rivers are broad and active, carrying plentiful water and connected by innumerable creeks.
Undaunted, I headed north where broad open valleys and long straight roads gave way to creeks, hills and winding roads.
The Gianinetti ranch was a curious mash-up of bucolic and urban, a broad patch of meadows threaded with two miles of spring-fed creeks, hard by the Roaring Fork River and busy Highway 82.
Mangroves include a variety of species of broad-leaved, shrubby trees (10 40 feet high) that fringe muddy creeks and tidal estuaries.
I had forgotten about the broad valley filled with dairy farms that drain into the creek, causing it to muddy more quickly than most other Catskill streams.
From the confluence, the gradient of the creek flattens sharply and the stream enters a broad and shallow valley that runs between Aliso Creek Road on the west and Alicia Parkway on the east.
SINCE the 1960's, Suffolk County had periodically pursued the purchase of the former Broad Cove Duck Farm, nearly 100 acres of waterfront woods and fields on a creek leading into Flanders Bay in Riverhead.
