Larvae disperse from the nest site by drifting in river currents at night, and continue this behaviour for around four to seven days.
I crossed in an elderly flat-bottomed metal boat, its decrepit appearance making me afraid that the engine would give out and we would drift down river into territory controlled by Saddam Hussein's forces.
I occasionally go for walks along the river and love going to Richmond, getting a rowing boat and drifting down the river with a picnic.
When it gets unbearably steamy, locals flock to the river to "shoot the hooch": basically a lazy summer afternoon spent drifting down the river in an inner tube, canoe, or kayak.
Barges drifting along the river offer an endlessly shifting vista.
When reading goes well, Wolf suggests, it feels effortless, like drifting down a river rather than rowing up it.
This is also the only time of cool and I can see thin fingers of mist curling through the trunks and drifting across the river beyond.
A distant waterbird flaps lazily along a strip of verdant marshy shoreline, the brown river drifting sluggishly alongside, while a young soldier stands looking on bored with his rifle.
These include walking a lap of the M25, drifting down a river on tractor inner tubes, sleeping on the highest point in his county and cycling around the Isle of Wight.
For Mr. Gardner's music, that means quavery analog pitch, calm vocal delivery of thoughts like "drifting down a river with no end" or "swimming in the deep," lots of vocal-harmony "ooh-wah"s and a connoisseur's attention to bygone bass and keyboard tones and to the ways the drummer can create a quiet eruption as a song continues.
We idled away a couple of hours paddling up, then drifting down the river Beauly near Aigas at a very leisurely pace, partly because we never really worked out how to steer the things, but mainly because it was nice and relaxing.
