Accordingly Selkirk's agents ordered the settlers to move north, and by October, John Halkett had torn down both posts, floating the timber to `` the Forks '' in rafts.

These vehicles are self-propelled on land, they can transform into raft type ferries when in the water, and often multiple vehicles can connect to form larger rafts or floating bridges.

Log rafts floating down the West Branch had to pass through chutes in canal dams.

A number of islands have indigenous lizards, including geckoes and skinks, whose ancestors probably arrived on floating rafts of vegetation washed out to sea by storms.

After the explosion of Krakatoa, rafts of pumice drifted through the Pacific Ocean for up to 20 years, with tree trunks floating among them.

It is an oceanic area with floating rafts of sargassum weed on the western side of the North Atlantic gyre.

Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the Common Tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts.

Strange, mythical creatures resembling small dragons roam the planetary sweet-water ocean, which is dotted with floating rafts of vegetation.

Onto these rafts floating on the water, lakebed mud and soil were heaped and crops planted.

Zinc phosphide is the only rodenticide currently registered to control nutria, but it is expensive, remains toxic for months, detoxifies in high humidity and rain, and requires construction of floating rafts ( expensive ) for placement of the chemical.

During the summer heat the river is filled with people floating on rafts and tubes from Oxbow park to the downstream Lewis and Clark State Park.

On the evenings of 3 – 5 March, PT boats and planes attacked Japanese rescue vessels, as well as the survivors from the sunken vessels on life rafts and swimming or floating in the sea.

On many weekends, the river develops an atmosphere akin to a fraternity party, with large flotillas of canoes and rafts floating down the river stopping for grilling, beer pong and passing out.

It still seems unlikely that Simpson would choose to abandon a flooded but floating ship to take to small open rafts in the Pacific Ocean.

Workers known as nautes had a monopoly of transport on large rivers and used boats, whereas the operated on the small rivers and in the marshes using rafts floating on inflated goatskins.

During the following five and a half days of nearly continuous eruption, residents of Nikolski ( 47 miles southwest ) were stranded for periods of up to three weeks ; Unalaska ( 73 miles northeast ) was repeatedly dusted with ash and flights into and out of this major fishing hub were frequently disrupted ; floating rafts of scoria and high visibility prompted the Coast Guard to close Umnak Pass to marine traffic ; and the Bering Pacific cattle ranch on the flanks of Okmok was periodically evacuated, once during noon-time darkness caused by heavy ash fall.

The floating rafts of fabric and booms, varying from 3. 7 to 6. 7 meters ( 12 to 22 feet ) in width and from 122 to 183 meters ( 400 to 600 feet ) in length were towed through the Bay to each island.

Flotel, a portmanteau of the terms floating hotel, refers to the installation of living quarters on top of rafts or semi-submersible platforms.

Additionally, 10 fire rafts were built in late 1775 and early 1776 and placed under the command of Captain John Hazelwood ; the Arnold and the Putnam were built as floating batteries and were manned by Pennsylvania State Marines.

Near the arts and crafts fair in Pajuçara is also where the rafts leave for the natural pools formed by choral reefs, where the tourist will find floating bars.

The deep end of the beach has 2 floating rafts in the middle for swimmers to swim out to.

They aggregate in considerable numbers around objects such as drifting flotsam, rafts, jellyfish and floating seaweed.

FADs are anchored rafts or objects of any type, floating on the surface or just below it.

Accumulation ( 1971 ), which is executed with the dancers on their backs, has been performed in public spaces of all kinds, including on water, with the dancers floating on rafts as they methodically work through the piece's graduated gestures.

They supposedly sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands on pae-paes — large rafts built from balsa logs, complete with sails and each with a small cottage.

For small mammals, amphibians and reptiles in particular, but for many invertebrates as well, such rafts of vegetation are often the only means by which they could reach and – if they are lucky – colonize oceanic islands before human-built vehicles provided another mode of transport.

These rafts resemble islands, to the extent of having plant and animal life upon them ; however, having no geologic foundations, they are in a constant state of motion.

The vessel foundered and sank within 20 minutes, but those on board managed to escape in lifeboats and rafts, some taking survivors to King islands and some to the mainland.

Over time, these sunken rafts would form square or rectangular islands, held in place in part by the juniper trees.

Floating artificial islands are generally made of bundled reeds, and the best known examples are those of the Uros people of Lake Titicaca, Peru, who build their villages upon what are in effect huge rafts of bundled totora reeds.

Yapese quarried the limestone rocks from the islands of Palau and took them to Yap with canoes and rafts.

As many of the downstream transducer and effector molecules of GPCRs ( including those involved in negative feedback pathways ) are also targeted to lipid rafts, this has the effect of facilitating rapid receptor signaling.

The twin summits of Mount Misery are supposed to be the remnants of his rafts, they are known as Lalangengall or the two watercraft.

There are five bad passes, due to the accumulation of trees and rafts of timber.

Hirsch temporarily freezes and Wentz is forced to speak German in front of his friends in order for the group to retain their cover until their rafts are tied up.

Passenger aircraft carry a great deal of safety equipment including inflatable slides are rafts, oxygen masks, oxygen tanks, life jackets, satellite beacons and first aid kits.

Fish are caught for recreational purposes from boats which range from dugout canoes, kayaks, rafts, pontoon boats and small dingies to runabouts, cabin cruisers and cruising yachts to large, hi-tech and luxurious big game rigs.

They are met midstream by a well-armed fleet, and their rafts and dugouts sink.

Offerings to Agwe are left on constructed rafts which are floated out to sea.

In some areas the bees are placed on platforms and rafts to keep them above potential floods.

alt = Several rafts made of long logs lashed together are bunched together near the bank of a large river.

Two men are standing on one of the rafts.

During the night, the remaining rafts are swept away by the rising river.

In Russia, rafts are often hand made and are often a catamaran style with two inflatable tubes attached to a frame.

Catamaran style rafts have become popular in the western United States as well, but are typically rowed instead of paddled.

* Punching – Rafts carry great momentum, and on rivers hydraulics that are dodged by canoes and kayaks are often punched by rafts.

* Knee flipping – Capsized rafts that are small enough with little or no gear attached can be knee flipped.

* T rescue – Much like the kayak technique some rafts are large enough that they need to be overturned with the assistance of another raft or land.

Typical whitewater rafts are inflatable craft, made from high strength fabric coated with PVC, Urethane, Neoprene or Hypalon ; see rafting.

While most rafts are large multi-passenger craft, the smallest rafts are single-person whitewater craft, see packraft.