That diabase cliff rock may have never achieved the stature of, say, granite.
In ancient times, the Dharug Aboriginal tribe came to this part of the Hawkesbury to fish and perform ceremonies, leaving carvings on the cliff rock that can be seen from the river. .
He's quite easy to kill, but since his spawn spot is right on top of a cliff rock, players in every channel gather up in that one place.
Threatening clouds masked the sun when I visited, and mists wreathed the serrated pinnacles of Castle Cliff Rocks overlooking the valley of the Dane, as we walked up through the trees from the packhorse bridge across the river near Gradbach.
The landscape is varied by spectacular Torridonian sandstone mountains, weathered into sheer cliffs, rock terraces, and pinnacles.
Its isolated situation on these cliffs protects it from most threats, but quarrying and mining of the cliffs, rock climbing, and other activities that disturb the cliff ecosystem can destroy it.
Forget mellow, rolling and lush; think instead of cliffs, rocks and twisting, leg-burning climbs.
Cliffs, rocks, ledges and jumps — for spins, flips and big air — are better.
In the summer the spectacular, bleak landscape of soaring cliffs, rocks and red clapperboard houses is bathed in perpetual sunlight.
And against the cliffs, rocks and hills, the buildings looked so insubstantial – like a slight shift in the earth's crust and the forest would re-engulf the high-rises and shantytowns, and reclaim the land.
Oil coated cliffs, rocks and sandy beaches for weeks, forcing the closure of Refugio and El Capitan state beaches, and small tar balls from the spill made their way as far south as Redondo Beach.
