Turkey vultures stirred the space between us and Patterson's Pellet, a large boulder left behind on the opposite cliffs by glaciers.
In "Siegfried," Alberich and Mime, the brother he has long persecuted (the vibrant tenor Thomas Harper), get into a wickedly childish fight and heave stones at each other from opposite cliffs.
Adams, writing about the photograph, gave little of the secret away: I remember that we watched a group of Navajos riding their horses westward along the wash edge, and we could occasionally hear their singing and the echoes from the opposite cliffs.
He tried and failed to persuade the Serbs on the far bank to carve their own Trajan on the opposite cliffs, to face the man he came to destroy.
Two of the young, homegrown Giants starters, Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner, didn't allow a run, and the third, the eccentric and delightful Tim Lincecum, out-pitched his celebrated (and far wealthier) opposite number, Cliff Lee, in the 3-1 finalastast night.
Brean Down is just over 2 km long and runs in an east-west direction near the mouth of the River Axe opposite Uphill Cliff.
The elephantine prints cross the whole area in a purposeful manner and disappear beneath the cliff opposite.
Yet thousands continue to flock here each year, unperturbed by the increasing number of plaques that hang on the cliff opposite to mark those who never returned.
We perch on the cliffs opposite, just below the ancient clifftop millraces and crack on.
But the long, narrow one-and-a-half acre garden is grand: it's bordered by a high white masonry wall along the street, and sheer cliffs opposite, and there's a nonstop ocean panorama on every step of the rustic stone paths and platforms leading to and from terraces, flower and vegetable beds, a free-standing library, a rectangular swimming pool, a tiny guesthouse and a chicken coop.
