At this part the river is wide, shallow and slow-running, and several sandbanks appear in the dry season.
At other times they protect themselves by burying quickly into sandbanks and gravel, and stay there.
This island has an area of about four and a half square miles, and is little more than a mixture of swamp and sandbank, inundated during the rainy season.
His very personal approach is eminently readable, and the tide of optimistic expectancy carries the reader over the muddy sandbanks of style and the shallow waters of content.
The proposed selection criteria address reef habitats as well as sandbanks, submerged sea-caves and gaseous vents, plus numerous species.
There is another footpath over the sandbank to the south-west of the airfield.
There are heavy sandbanks, and the inland sea, which looks so impressive on the map, is nothing but a shallow pond.
This excessive power cannot usually be made available owing to the sandbanks, and twists and turns in the river.
