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The falls is mainly divided into three sections and can be reached with the help of rafts known as coracles.
The timber was accompanied on its way by men in coracles who then walked the 40 miles back from the sea.
At Tim's house, a remote fishing lodge on the upper reaches of the river, the coracles were carried down to the water's edge.
He saw one of my handmade laundry baskets, and he remarked that it reminded him of a miniature version of the boats, or coracles, his uncle once had built in Ireland.
The great thing about the coracles is that if you do hook a big fish that takes you down rapids you can go after them by boat, rather than simply jumping in and swimming!
Sixth century monks in leather coracles knew this, so too did Vikings of the 9th and 10th centuries and Gaeilc-speaking descendants in galleys and birlinns.
Eustace had a wider market for his coracles than any coracle-maker before him.
From Hampi, round, flat-bottomed boats called coracles ferry people across the river to a rocky jetty, but that is only the beginning of the trip to the Anjanadri temple.
The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
In the winters he keeps busy making model coracles, a foot in diameter which he presents as gifts.
In the river valleys Welsh fishermen used coracles until quite recently.
Until the 1970s gufas huge circular coracles of basketwork, coated with bitumen and capable of carrying up to 20 passengers were in regular use in the vicinity of Baghdad.
They fished with coracles, a type of boat still used in Wales today.
Currachs were probably the most common seagoing craft, and on inland waters dugouts and coracles were used.
Historically, the rivers Wye, Teme and Lugg were navigable but the wide seasonal variations in water levels mean that few craft larger than canoes and coracles are now used.
Coracles are paddled, or more correctly sculled, not to the stern but rather toward the bow using a figure-eight stroke.
Examples from Classical Literature
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles.
It was really interesting finding out what the coracles were used for and I loved building them.
If stocks are decreasing then should not all licences for coracles or anglers be restricted until such time as the position improves?
Fishing with nets from coracles now takes place on just three Welsh rivers, the Towy, the Taf, and the Teifi.
They will form the coracles roof, as part of the pounds 110m Bluestone holiday complex project, which could bring 900 jobs to the county.
Any government with basic common sense or respect would be trying to encourage the return of the coracles to the other rivers from which they have been driven by greed.
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