Most of the placer-producing creeks drain the area of lode mineralization.
When you recollect our coast line, with its numerous creeks and bays and harbours and the powerful smuggling instinct, there must be a substantial allowance for cost of collection.
First it fills the creeks and channels, the lower levels, leaving behind sandbanks and shoals, like islands in the flood, and then the tide comes up and submerges them all.
On an incoming tide, while not dangerous, the ground generally gives the impression of opening slightly, and a person walking round these creeks could tire fairly quickly.
We have creeks and coves, windswept cliffs and sun-soaked and glorious beaches, but that beauty, like so much in life, cannot mask the underlying problems that scar the area.
The boats have increased in size, and it is no longer possible to draw them into the little creeks, as was the case when they were much smaller.
There must be many places where it would be possible to set up some sort of pilot scheme at one of the many creeks and tributaries.
I do not think he read the whole definition, but he covered creeks, bays and all kinds of other things.
