What is "waterholes"

Usage examples of "waterholes".

But I had no build-up shots of cattle dead around the waterholes, of the Samburu abandoning their manyattas and the scene in isolation would make no sense.

Dima was there about a year ago and he says the whole mountain was bare, nothing but shambas, the lake we called Paradise dried up, most of the waterholes too.

Herds of animals come to the pans and waterholes, while the grasses and trees turn cheerfully green.

A few more weeks and the central Kalahari would be almost impassible for any humans but Bushmen—and even they would be holed up around the few permanent waterholes, traveling as little as possible in the terrible heat—and would stay that way until the late-October rains.

Like everybody else, we had to depend on waterholes, and no matter what route we chose, sooner or later we had to wind up at those watering places.

The house was nearing completion, and he had cleaned the waterholes and walled up the spring near the cabin.

The buckskin turned dark with sweat and the red dust that shrouded the junipers began to cover him, but still he rode north, knowing nothing of the waterholes, into a trackless and forbidding land.

He had deliberately avoided all waterholes, having plenty of water himself, and knowing they would be splitting the water of three canteens among seven men.

Once they gained the wagon road to Kuruman, they would be back in the known world, and the road would lead them to the series of waterholes that grandfather Moffat had marked.

The big game was concentrated on the remaining water, the deeper river pools and the strongest waterholes, so that each day's march was through a wonderland of wild animals.

With the first onslaught of the rains, the great herds of game that had been concentrated upon the last few pools and waterholes had been freed to scatter widely across the vast land where every ditch and irregularity was now at last brimming with fresh sweet water and where the baked and sun-scared plains were already blooming green with the tender first shoots of new growth.

There were streams, enough for good water even if a man didn’t know where other waterholes lay.

Few good waterholes yonder, but folks fight shy of them because of Kiowas.

There were streams, enough for good water even if a man didn't know where other waterholes lay.

That was why several of the waterholes on the range had been developed by themselves, maintained by themselves, to keep the stock from wandering farther than necessary.