It looks like we'll see a rapid rise in the tides, Wednesday night. We could lose the beaches where the water is all the way up to the dunes by Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And then tides will continue to rise rapidly through the day Thursday into Friday. It's going to be a nail biter.
Quotes about dunes (15 Quotes)
We need to get through one more hurricane season and winter of Nor' Easters. A lot of our beaches are in poor shape. A series of powerful storms in the 1990s have eroded large sections of sand and dunes. One more major hit and we could be in big trouble. There are thousands of lives, homes, businesses and public property at stake here. They are at clear risk.
It surprised me, I started laughing, ... Thomas Bjorn thought that was kind of funny. I was looking down the fairway and just kind of tinged the ball with the toe of my club. I did that one time at the Bob Hope Classic and hit it 60 yards. Almost killed about six old people on the right at Bermuda Dunes.
The majority of their burrows are in the dunes along the beaches.
For me, I feel more at home in the dunes and the camel grass where I have a lot of experience and can use that to my advantage. But the number of days through the most difficult areas of desert is fewer this year. In fact, I would say we have three good days where I feel I can make a big difference.
Before, we could hardly make out dunes there.
It has been quite a time since I was last in a rally car and I was a little unsure about my pace on the high speed sections. I felt fine in the technical sections and through the small dunes, but judging distances at speed was not easy. It will take a little time to regain that confidence, but I am pleased and surprised to be leading. I need to train my eyes to adjust to the fast terrain over the next few days.
The budget on the film was 9.5 million and we grossed the budget the first night. This is the first Platinum Dunes (film) Michael Bay has done (in his production deal at New Line) and he delivered in spectacular fashion. And the marketing was terrific.
This is a huge win for wildlife and people who care about the dunes. The court wisely told the Bureau of Land Management to wake up, follow the law and treat the dunes with some respect.
Many of these areas are still not well protected. With the loss of the dunes, they're more susceptible to flooding.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Things will start rolling into Prairie Dunes May 8. We'll start building our hospitality facilities and bleachers and TV towers. Those things will continue until about a week prior to the Open. What it really comes down to is that we're building a small city, complete with places to eat and places to shop.
When Bandon Dunes opened in 1999, it took the golf world by storm, but when Pacific Dunes opened in 2001, it wrested the attention from Bandon,
It's very important, especially out here at Bermuda Dunes. You have a lot of chances to make birdies, but you have to take advantage of the par-5s and I was able to do that today.
The chilly December day two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.