Sentence examples for river boating from inspiring English sources
Ever since Katharine Hepburn declared, "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!," African river boating has been a booming industry.
Just a few kilometres upstream from Victoria Falls' high-octane activities are serene riverside lodges, island beaches and calm waters for canoeing, drift rafting or river boating.
Just a few kilometres upstream are serene riverside lodges that allow for the easy ogling of birds and big game, including hippos, crocodiles, giraffes and elephants; while the calmer waters bring the more gentle pursuits of canoeing, drift rafting and river boating.
To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.
In 1983 over 100 canal and river boats rode the flooded river for the Greater Manchester Waterways Festival, an event aimed at demonstrating how pleasure boating could "transform the bleak waterway in the heart of Manchester".
Perhaps this is because the tides are intimidating: Garf Norman – who has sailed Dutch barges from the Netherlands via Denver Sluice – reckons the tidal Great Ouse is a "horrible" stretch of river for boating because the tide rips in and out dangerously quickly.
Two nearby parks provide river access for boating and fishing; another, near the town center, encircles a small lake.
The Bureau of Land Management, however, had not closed the river to recreational boating, according to San Juan County community development planner Charlie Delorme.
Afterwards, we'd cross the river and go boating past the 19th-century grottos and waterfalls of the Lac Inferieur in the Bois de Boulogne (boats a snip at £7 an hour).
They recall going tubing down the river, going on boating trips, building sheds, shooting, playing sports and of course, giving women priesthood blessings.
Written mainly during the two years he lived in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts (1845 47), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers chronicles a boating trip Thoreau took with his brother John to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in 1839.
