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Recent Examples of water holeFor them, luxury is watching elephants drink at the water hole under moonlight or waking up to hear lion roars in the distance.—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 The water hole was surrounded by palm trees and sand dunes during the late Cretaceous period, but since then, the environment has changed drastically.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025 Water Holes Canyon The name Water Holes Canyon is a bit fanciful as there no significant permanent water holes here.—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2024 Hang Trail Cameras Over Scrapes Short of a corn pile or isolated water hole, the best way to take inventory of the deer in your area is by hanging cameras over large community scrapes.—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024 There are five water holes operated by mechanical pumps.—Mazuba Kapambwe, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024 When the females had cubs, in contrast, males were more likely to encounter potential rivals on the edges of their territory or around water holes.—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024 The most popular months for the park’s one million annual visitors, this is also the season when wildlife is most active; animals like alligators, deer, and wading birds congregate around lingering water holes.—Matt Kirouac, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2023
Songtsam Linka Retreat Lake Basong Tso, for example, is situated on an emerald lake surrounded by towering peaks.
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Katie Lockhart,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
The Dora Queen is an 80-foot paddlewheel boat offering sunset cruises on Lake Dora, a 4,500-acre lake in central Florida known for its seaplanes, bass fishing, and chain of connected waterways.
Independent research shows that so far, no major disruptions to downstream flow have been recorded, noting favorable rainfall but also the cautious filling of the reservoir during wet seasons over a five-year period.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
But Wolfe’s good point, in his writing on architecture, was that there was an immense reservoir of idiomatic American style that deserved to be taken as seriously—or, more to the point, as joyfully—as any European art-school dogma.
While the movement has yet to gain traction on this side of the pond, Americans have needed little outside encouragement to get in on the secondhand shopping trend, both online, led by marketplaces like ThredUp and The Real Real, and in thrift stores.
Expect flocks of vibrant flamingos and tiny flitting hummingbirds spreading their wings over the turquoise waters and tangles of mangroves that unfold across lagoons that stretch parallel to the sea.
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