Sentence examples for sheltered harbor from inspiring English sources

But by the time we were beyond the sheltered harbor, wind and sea had whipped up.

(The mellow, sheltered harbor of Cuttyhunk makes it a favorite spot for sailors; fishermen come for the bass and bluefish).

Port Townsend was the first white settlement on the Olympic Peninsula, and its sheltered harbor became a center for the sea trade that defined the region's early history.

Taizhou's main industrial area, Yantou, where the Jiaojiang River meets the East China Sea, was historically popular among fishermen, who used the river as a sheltered harbor.

With the line attached to a ship, the Aiviq, preparations were under way to move the rig from its spot along a rocky shoreline on Sitkalidak Island to a sheltered harbor for inspection.

On Sunday, they made their way through swarms of assorted vessels to Oyster Bay, and anchored there for the night in Morris Cove, a sheltered harbor on the west side of Centre Island, which is a long peninsula protruding into the bay.

Indeed, with her red sand beaches, flowering herb bushes, sheltered harbors and breathtaking ocean views most famously of the dwejra or "azure window," a rock archway that offers a glimpse of the deep blue sea–"Calypso's Isle" is suitably seductive for tired tourists who have spent the past few days soaking in the centuries on Malta.

Charles Elliot of the Royal Navy appreciated the well-sheltered harbor when he grabbed Hong Kong for Britain in 1841.

The bay's deep and well-sheltered natural harbor, appropriately named Hurricane Hole, doesn't offer much in the way of a beach.

This is often the case if those beaches front a sheltered sound, bay or harbor.

The sea below our table was oil smooth, the harbor a sheltered lagoon, blocked off from the ocean by the long, hilly, granite bulk of Bodega Head.