He snuck up on the ham like Maggie, gumming it with soft, stumpy teeth, then panting with thirst, lapping up the water in the lagoon, swelling up like a balloon, staggering home to be sick, while his mother said, `` That does it.

Clipperton's lagoon is devoid of fish, and contains some deep basins with depths of, including a spot known as Trou-Sans-Fond, or " the bottomless hole ", with acidic water at its base.

While some sources have rated the lagoon water as non-potable, testimony from the crew of the tuna clipper M / V Monarch, stranded on Clipperton for 23 days in 1962 after their boat sank, indicates otherwise.

Their report reveals that the lagoon water, while not tasting very good, was drinkable, though " muddy and dirty ".

Aside from the lagoon and water caught from rain, no other freshwater sources are known to exist on the island.

They reported that the lagoon water was drinkable, though they preferred to drink water from the coconuts they found.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

When found on the beaches, Calophyllum often extends over the lagoon water and supports nesting red-footed boobies, as does Barringtonia asiatica.

The Kameni islands in the centre of the lagoon are the most recent example of a cone built by this volcano, with much of them hidden beneath the water.

During the 20th century, when many artesian wells were sunk into the periphery of the lagoon to draw water for local industry, Venice began to subside.

This consists of taking a boat to the outer lagoon reefs, then standing in waist-high water while habituated stingrays swarm around, pressing right up against tourists seeking food from their hands or that being tossed into the water.

The Little Sea is considered to be a lagoon so it presents problems of water exchange.

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.

Some authorities ( such as Nybakken ) include fresh water bodies in the definition of " lagoon ", while others explicitly restrict " lagoon " to bodies of water with some degree of salinity.

Davis restricts " lagoon " to bodies of water with little or no fresh water inflow, and little or no tidal flow, and calls any bay that receives a regular flow of fresh water an " estuary ".

As the tide reaches its peak, the lagoon water has a much smaller amount of barrier to permeate through so the lagoon level rises.

The Jökulsárlón lagoon provides outstanding views of the Ice Cap, which is a vast dome of ice that rises to a height of.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

The island's rim averages in width, though it reaches in the west and narrows to in the northeast, where sea waves occasionally spill over into the lagoon.

North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island, a nearly closed atoll ring with a small opening into the lagoon, about wide, on the east side.

For the first few months there were next to no recreation facilities on the island, and the men amused themselves by shooting at sharks that swam into the lagoon.

Since the early 2000s, dredging machines have operated at the Murray Mouth, moving sand from the channel to maintain a minimal flow from the sea and into the Coorong's lagoon system.

The coastline can be divided into an eastern lagoon coastline and a western embayed coastline.

Following World War II, much of the Naval Air Station there was demolished, with some of the materials piled up and burned on the atoll, dumped into the lagoon, or in the case of unexploded ordnance on some of the islets, left in place.

Six hundred years ago, Venetians protected themselves from land-based attacks by diverting all the major rivers flowing into the lagoon and thus preventing sediment from filling the area around the city.

The Phoenicians transformed the inhospitable island, which they called Motya, into one of the most affluent cities of its time, naturally defended by the lagoon as well as high defensive walls.

Lucas says that the tributary empties into a lagoon known as the " Black Lagoon ", a paradise from which no one has ever returned.

The creature decides to make his own cereal called " Creature with the Black Macaroons " because macaroon sounds like lagoon ; however, the cereal wasn't successful and when all the cereals were dumped into his lagoon, he says " I should've gone with legumes ", as legume also sounds like lagoon.

Coastal lagoons tend to accumulate sediments from inflowing rivers, from runoff from the shores of the lagoon, and from sediment carried into the lagoon through inlets by the tide.

Coote Creek finds its way down another valley, then as a beautiful waterfall, it rushes over a sandstone rock face into the lagoon below.

Buttonwood Park is also the site of a lagoon which feeds into Buttonwood Brook, and the Buttonwood Zoo.

This small beach which leads into a lagoon consists of a Bathing Area ( which Closed until further notice due to sea nettles aka Jellyfish ), Bocce Court, Picnic Table, a Playground area, and a Tennis Court.

In 1968, the lagoon overflowed, spilling approximately 3, 000 gallons of acidic sludge into Bear Creek which borders the east side of the site.

This lagoon released 25 million gallons of noxious sludge into North Carolina ’ s New River and killed approximately eight to ten million fish.

The Rakaia River in Canterbury, New Zealand has cut a channel 100 metres deep into the surrounding plains ; this river transports sediment to a lagoon located on the river-coast interface.

Perhaps because he grew up in the countryside, he uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, in which the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon: a Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water.

The lagoon was reshaped to give it a more natural appearance, except for the straight-line northern end where it still laps up against the steps on the south side of the Palace of Fine Arts / Museum of Science & Industry building.

The new Gothic palace's constructions started around 1340, focusing mostly on the side of the building facing the lagoon.

A former arcade building, the Eco-Learning Centre was established in a lagoon area of Ontario Place as a fun and informative “ edutainment ” attraction, and was created with displays generously provided by the The World Wildlife Fund, The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, The Royal Ontario Museum, Parks Canada, The Toronto Humane Society, and the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Hinkler Park, adjacent to the lagoon at the north end of Manly Beach is named in his honour, and is also the site of a building for the Australian Air League.

Among his projects are the construction of a police station building and municipal jail, restoration of the lagoon, established the Saad Park, and launched the Saad Festival which won the top spot in the 2008 Kasadyan Festival and competed in the Aliwan Festival.

Left alone on the southern shore when all the other people from the south side go north to help with the canoe building, Le Moan sees the Kermadec, a schooner full of white men, sail into the lagoon.