...FACES OF THE NAMIB AN UNIQUE TRIP TO BE EXPERIENCED MORE THAN ONCE 28 DEC 2014 – 2 JAN 2015 2015 FACES OF THE NAMIB AN UNIQUE TRIP TO BE EXPERIENCED MORE THAN ONCE 28 DEC 2014 – 2 JAN 2015 2015 A “3 IN 1” NEW YEAR DESERT TRIP WITH A DIFFERENT FLAVOUR WITH RICHARD AS YOUR GUIDE YOUR OFF-ROAD CARAVANS AND TRAILERS ARE WELCOME *************************************************************************** The Cederberg 4x4 Christmas season activities begin on 16 December 2014 where interested people will have the option of participating in any of the three back to back trips being offered. The first would be the ever popular West Coast trip, then continuing to the Namib Desert New Year trip and ending with the Richtersveld return trip. Very important, it will be your choice how many of these back to back trips you will join. You are welcome to choose the trips that will suit your time available before having to return home. Richard will be guiding all three of the trips mentioned above, starting 16 December 2014 on the West Coast and continue to Namibia spending Christmas at Amanzi camp on the bank of the Gariep River. From there he will continue to Solitaire, the rendezvous for the New Year Namib Desert trip starting 28 December 2014. On completing the New Year Namib Desert trip in Walvis Bay, Richard will head for the Richtersveld via Solitaire, Helmeringhausen, Seeheim, Hobas and Ai-Ais. The ferry at Sendelingsdrif will be used (depending on the Gariep River...
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...beach location. Next, we can also join a full-day Yarra Valley wine tour and visit four of the region's best known wineries, that is Yering Station, Balgownie Estate, Yering Farm and Domaine Chandon. Over lunch and a series of wine tastings, see why the Yarra Valley is one of Australia's most picturesque wine regions on your Yarra Valley wine tour, the perfect day trip from Melbourne. Other than that, we will also discover the scenic North Coast region of Port Stephens on a full-day coach tour from Sydney. Visit a wildlife park to check out the critters, then hop on a boat in Nelson Bay to look for bottlenose dolphins. Hit the Stockton Bight Sand Dunes for a 4WD tour and a chance to try sandboarding! With wildlife viewings including Australian favorites like koalas, kangaroos and Tasmanian devils, plus a dolphin-watching cruise and sand dune tour, you’ll dive into the natural...
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...It was June 7th, the last day of 6th grade. Just like every other morning while I was in middle school I woke up to my alarm at 6:15 and clicked the snooze button until it was just about at seven in the morning .Always pushing myself to rush my morning. This morning instead of riding the bus like I usually did, I had convinced my father to drive me to school to drop me off along with my bike. A group of four friends and I planned on biking after school to my friend Joe’s house to stay the night, as well as a couple other things for the day. Before I had gotten down the stairs and to the truck my father had already thrown my bike in the trunk of our F-150. When we reached the school, I was grabbing my bag. While my father was pulling the bike out of the truck. My father walked me over to the bike rack, along with my bike and he chained it up for me. After that I told him I loved him. Just like what most people say to there parent before they leave. He left for work and I went about the usual last day of school the pointless saying goodbye to friends and teachers we would most likely not see during our summer. Signing every ones year books, the thing I never bothered to ask my dad to buy me. Sense it was the last day of school it was a half day. I would not be pointlessly stuck at school for a full day. School had just finally ended and it was still only eleven. It still hasn't even reached lunch yet. I had the whole day with my friends, I was excited. Joe told us he wanted to...
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...Have you ever heard of a sand dune? Well, if you haven’t, I will tell you about them in this report. I will also tell you how I made a tasty model of a coastal sand dune. So….start reading! Sand dunes are fragile and formed by wind and water moving and sculpting the sand. The dune starts with wind that moves the sand. The wind moves it into piles just like a snow drift. The sand will build up on itself layer upon layer. Each new wind can make the dune larger and each new pile of sand can grow into a huge dune. Sand dunes form around stuff on the beach like rocks, drift wood and stuff that washes up on the beach during high tide. Inside sand dunes there are plant roots, which hold the sand together. This helps protect the sand dune from being destroyed. A dune holds the sand on the beach to help cut down erosion. Dunes are very important, without them the beaches would disappear. Coastal sand dunes can be found in North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Georgia and Texas. Dunes on the Georgia coast normally grow 10 to 12 feet tall and can be found all along Georgia’s barrier islands. These Dunes and islands have protected Georgia from the ocean tide. Plants are an important part of a dune. Plants that are on the fore dune must be able to take salt sprays, strong winds and burial by blowing sand. Plants like sea rocket, beach croton and Russian thistle grow here. On top of the dunes grass such as salt meadow cord grass...
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...The Influence of service delivery to customer satisfaction and loyalty at sand dunes chalao Beach Resort in Thailand. 1 Chapter one 1.1Introduction. Tourism and hospitality industry is one of the largest industry in the world. It contributes 11% of the total world gross product. The driving forces of the industry include public relations and integration of proper marketing strategy. Public relations refers to the ability of an organization to foster a relationship with their consumers. For an organization to impress their clients it must commit to quality service delivery. Quality service ensures client satisfaction (Sasser). Satisfied clients form a fundamental economic efficiency for a firm especially organizations in the hospitality industry. It ensures client loyalty and thus constant business retention for the firm (Viglon.). 1.2 Background of the study. The tourism and hospitality industry is a service industry. It deals with the retail of high end luxuries. The core drive of such an industry is the ability to market its services in abide to attract new clients. Marketing enable the firm to retain old clients too. To ensure continuity of the business the organization must be able to keep the promises it gives to the clients. This is through delivery of quality services. Adoption of suitable marketing strategy also helps the organization to remain relevant in business. To evaluate the levels of satisfaction of customers...
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...Many geographical characteristics could be observed, the area was quite popular for the public, as many were seen swimming, walking the dog, sunbathing, running and participating in many other activities. The sand on this section of beach was dredged 20 metres from shore and then pumped back onto the beach. Beach Replenishment was also present which allows the pumping of sand from elsewhere onto an eroding shoreline to widen the beach. Sandbars were also located in this area. There were many natural processes occurring across this site. Longshore drift is the movement of sand and other particles along the shore. It occurs when a wave breaks, lifts sand into suspension, and then throws a pulse of sand-bearing water (swash) up the slope of the beach. The backwash then returns the flow of water back down the beach after a wave has broken. The groynes are located in this area to prevent this natural process from occurring. They are used along the shore as a hard engineering technique to prevent the movement of beach material along the coast. A soft engineering technique present in this area was vegetation regrowth which was located before the sea wall. The regrowth prevents the erosion by trapping the sand which allows sand dunes to form over time. The Sea wall is an embankment placed to prevent the sea eroding and area of land. The direction of the waves were South Easterly due to the prevailing wind...
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...Extra Credit Details Bruneau Sand Dunes: Every CLEAR Friday and Saturday night (March to October) the Bruneau Observatory is open to the public. There is a small fee for attending. For details, go to their website: Bruneau. Also, if you plan to attend, DO NOT USE Mapquest or GPS! To get credit for this event please write a two-page paper about what you saw/learned/liked/disliked and relate it to something in class. This is potentially worth 20 points. Boise Astronomical Society also holds viewing parties in Kuna at various times. This would work too. Check their site for more details: http://www.boiseastro.org/calendar/star-calendar.php Discovery Center: Go to their website for their hours and prices. They also have occasional adult nights (must be over 21). To get credit for this activity please choose three of your favorite exhibits and write about them….how/why they work, what you like/dislike, what you learned, how it relates to class, etc. This is potentially worth 10 points. Boise Watershed Project: For info you can go to their website: Boise Environmental Education. They have drop-in wastewater tours for the public. They gear those tours toward the family audience. If you are interested in a more technical tour we need to form a group of at least 10 students. Let me know if you are interested. There is also a work sheet to print and take with you: Wastewater treatment. This is potentially worth 10 points. Take-Home Lab: There is a take-home lab...
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...can be devastated due to short-term events such as storms, wave action, or tides and winds. Shorelines can also be affected by large scale events such as glacier or orogeny cycles that alter sea levels. Tectonic movements also cause coastal land to be depleted or increased. These processes are natural, and the rise and fall of coastlines is just another part of nature, but human activity has drastically depleted shorelines worldwide. Beaches are becoming smaller and smaller, and cities are spending millions of dollars a year on replacing the sand alone (Prasetya). There are many things that humans are doing to devastate the coastlines. Along the coast, activities such as land reclamation, port development, shrimp farming, and construction are leading causes in coastal depletion. Within river catchments and watersheds, activities such as river damming and diversion affect the coast. Offshore events affect beaches as well. Dredging and sand mining are just a few examples of harmful offshore processes. Each of these things, combined with natural forces, put the coasts in dire need(Coastal Managment). It jeopardizes coastal cities and environments’ health. People normally flock to coastal areas to inhabit, and developers now have to deal with the problems of erosion. A strong push has been made by the administration in the areas affected to manage the coastal problems and restore the beaches, as well as make steps to accommodate the short and long-term changes brought along by...
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...regularly exposed to bullying. And that colleagues can not figure out to intervene and help the bully victim, although they would like. Everyone have been bullied somewhere, at school, at home, at work and outside. The bullies have no idea what they are doing. For them is just fun, cool or they are trying to be cool. But what they don’t know is that they are making the other people sad or makes them to suicide. We have all heard from news, that “a 11 years old girl suicide after being bullied”. Bullying is a huge burden for both the learning environment and students' learning ability. The negative attitude creates negative atmosphere. Strand, wet sand, dry sand and small pokes of sharp grass. Is what he dreaming often. He laces to the top of the dune and looks down onto the strand. There is water and wet sand and dry sand and small pokes2 of sharp grass dotted along the beach. He stands on the lip3 of the concrete defencea; looks east, to the line of groyness, then west, to the lighthouse in the distance. There's no one he can see, no one he can call to for help. Below s him, the drop onto the beach is fifteen, maybe twenty, feet. He jumps because he has to, jumps out into the air, and sees as he falls one more thing: a cloud of white birds hanging on the skyline. There is a hot taste filling his mouth, like molten iron, and a black pain, and the knowledge that his teeth are through his...
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...About Gearhart The town of Gearheart is a scenic residential community hugging Oregon's Pacific Northwest Coast, only minutes ways from the bustliung town of Seaside. The small community is conviently located, and is only trip from downtown Portland. The town's proximity to the larger metropolitan area has made Gearhart a favorite vacation locale for residents of the larger city scince the 1800s. The town is characterized by a quiet and restorative atmosphere. The beach, spanning more than two miles, is often filled only with gold grassy dunes, driftwood, and seawood left there by nature. Residents of the queit village can occasionally be seen along the sandy shores collecting razor clams and other beach treasyres. The historic beach town...
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...Week 4 Deserts Lab Report Answer the lab questions for this week and summarize the lab experience using this form. Carefully read Ch. 15 of Geoscience Laboratory. Pay special attention to the graphs and figures. Complete this week’s lab by filling in your responses to the questions from the Geoscience Laboratory. Select answers are provided for you in red font to assist you with your lab work. Although you are only required to respond to the questions in this worksheet, you are strongly encouraged to answer the other questions from the text on your own; doing so will make answering the required questions easier. Questions are from Geoscience Laboratory, 5th ed. (pp. 268–278), by T. Freeman, 2009, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Reprinted with permission. Lab Questions 15.4. Given principles 1–4 on page 265, explain the occurrence of the two contrasting climates illustrated in Figure 15.5. According to the principles, warm air rises and cool air lowers. The left side of the mountain rises, so the warm air on that side is rising with it. This makes the woodsy type tropical area of the mountain. The warmer air holds more moisture and rain is produced from releasing the moisture, which feeds the plants. The right side of the mountain lowers and has cooler air than the other side. This cause colder climate to become dry, as it loses its moisture it falls to the ground as snow. 15.6 When a hawk or eagle wishes to gain altitude after a tiring day of hunting...
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...2_02 My recent trip to the beaches at The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico reminds me of one of the most beautiful and spectacular places I’ve ever been. The beach smells fresh, almost like a new tropical breeze air freshener. Next to me is the Caribbean ocean, bright as a cloudless noon sky, washes onto the white sand. Looking at the waves’ white foam; then, I let my senses enjoy the sound as they break on the beach, almost like a shaken-up champagne bottle being opened. The sand is hot and looks like gold blended in with little white crumbs; it sparkles like the diamonds showcased in a high-end jewelry store and feels like walking on ashes from freshly extinguished fire. Despite the heat, walking on the warm, crystal sand pacifies my soul. I set up my folding lounger under the shade of a palm tree and explore my surroundings. The colorful towels spread out all over the beach are covered by bronzed figures. A net is up towards the water, and a few more figures dive to save a falling volleyball. Not far from the shore, you can see the coral sitting still in the wild and shallow water. People are laughing and playing in the burning sand, and others are relaxing on the beach reading their books while enjoying the bright rays of light coming from the sun. In a distance, I see occasional jet skis speeding over the waves, and sometimes, I can see a fish hop out of the water, its body shining in the sun. Not far away, a resort is attractively located right by the water...
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...English Coursework The sands were pearly white. I was memorised by the sea, as sapphire blue as my dear wife’s eyes. It was peaceful. Tranquil. The sun starred it’s raze down on the razor sharp sand. The aroma of hot dogs and filled my nostrils, permeating through the air. Just like the busy streets of New York, but the calm morning breeze of amity island was all I could feel around me. Not a single cloud in the sky, the day seemed as though it was going to be a perfect day, but what is perfect? Then like a flock of birds, they started to arrive, propelling and fighting over the best spots of the beach they could find. I gaze over like an eagle stalking its prey. Piercing screams, high-pitched laughter, children splashing, squishing, and shouting with joy. Beads of sweat trickled down my face as the sun, a gold coin in sky, effervescent, piercing through my skin like the diamond encrusted sand on the soles of my feet. I felt as though I was in paradise. I begin to notice the smiling shore ripple with force, accompanied by piercing screams and shouting. I emerge from my deck chair in alertness. Suddenly, a slim figure is swallowed by the gaping mouth of the Pacific Ocean. My heart begins to beat, race and pulsate, almost like the prey running away from the predator. In relief, she emerged, like a moth cradled in its cocoon, cradled on the shoulders of a friend. I declined back into the embracing arms of my chair feeling composed. I am still on edge, it almost seemed that...
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...Breaking up is hard to do – Separating Sand & Salt Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to separate a mixture of sand and salt. Materials: * Small beaker * Electric balance * Sand * Salt * Water * Graduated cylinder * Stirring rod * Filter paper * Flask * Rubber policeman * Wash bottle * Funnel * Bunsen burner complete with rubber tubing and a source of gas * Hot hands * Insulator pad * Ring stand complete with a ring * Wire gauze * Striker Pre-lab Questions: 1. Water will be useful in separating the salt and sand because salt is soluble in water, which allows it to dissolve into a homogenous mixture, allowing for filtering of the sand. 2. Properties of sand and salt that will help separate them are that salt is water soluble, and the sand is insoluble in water. 3. The three things that could go wrong in this experiment are: * During the evaporation of water while using the Bunsen burner, the flask might crack or explode – this can be avoided by not heating the flask over a prolonged period of time, and not heating it too intensely. * Some of the sand may be lost during the filtration – this can be avoided by carefully filtering the mixture, and making sure that all of the sand has been washed off from the beaker, and the rubber policeman. * Some of the salt may be lost if the salt doesn’t dissolve completely or if some of the salt water is spilled – this can be...
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...rays, making the shady beach of Barry Island seem like paradise, heat comparable to the Sahara desert. A child desperately tries to prevent his ice cream from a sand encrusted death as it plummets to the floor, debating whether or not he wants a vanilla and sand flavour ice cream, his face puzzled as he decides on retrieval, he would soon be distracted by the horde of people rapidly rushing to the depths of the sea. The sea sits calm and patient, almost inviting to the untrained eye. From afar the sea seems crystal-like projecting as it does a near perfect mirror image as if the sky and sea are at one. The closer you get to the sea you soon start to see its cracks as if it was a porcelain doll, beautiful and almost elegant from a distance. It's too late to turn back now the seas illusion has set in, the soggy sand has captured your footprint. Suddenly the sea shows its true colours a horrible musk of black filth, home to all types of disgusting bacteria waiting to pounce on the weak immune system. The stench of chip fat rules the air like a corrupt king slaying the sense of smell. Enticing the beach goers into a calorific snack, washed down by the warmth of a flat lifeless beer, where the rules of 'best served chilled' have been extremely violated. Seagulls circle the area ready to raid the sand for the food the sea has not yet claimed, Vermin of the air are hunting their prey. Litter clutters the beach, making a kaleidoscope of colours created by the metallic...
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