The water was a nice clear creek a about 3 feet wide & ran along the gutter around the NW corner of the intersection.
"Normally we would have an animal down by now," he said as we followed a small, clear creek up a steep hill.
"They were all telling me the same story," said Albrecht, "that they were rural people, they loved clean beautiful skies, stars at night, the quiet, the birds, the fresh air, the crystal-clear creeks… every single aspect of the life that they valued was being taken away by this massive industry".
At dusk Peter took us out by his noisy, crystal-clear creek where he had a tidy washhouse built on pilings to protect it from floods.
Waterfalls cascaded through the jungle; locals caught crayfish in the clear mountain creeks and hawked them in reed baskets at the roadside.
In 1865 the last pine spar raft floated down the creek, and on March 28 , 1871the General Assembly passed a law allowing splash dam construction and clearing of creeks to allow loose logs to float better.
The accommodations are spartan (plastic buckets filled with washing water outside the doors), but the setting--high cliffs on three sides, wooded grounds, a clear singing creek -- is something apropos to an Aman Resort, and may yet someday be.
On the 465-yard par-4 finishing hole, he hit his tee shot so far that it flew 330 yards, cleared a creek that cuts into the fairway and landed safely down the middle.
Perhaps it was the buffalo, thousands upon thousands, some grazing, some already bedded down and chewing cud in the gentle warmth of a noonday winter sun, some watering in a clear-running creek that came down from the north, where the valley made a long bed.
On at least three occasions he winced after hitting a shot, including on his last full swing of the day, an iron from the left rough at the par-4 11th that cleared the creek but finished well short of the green.
By 1782 British military defeats made it clear that the Creeks would lose their British connection.
