dry land

"We anchored the boat here, and it was stuck on dry land the next day. We had no way to move it," fisherman Josué Oliveira told Reuters news agency.

For thousands of years Somalis have been eking out a living moving their herds of camels and goats from one pasture to the next across this dry land.

The marshy site where the massacre took place is now dry land — barely noticeable to visitors save for a roadside historical marker that describes the tragedy.

While sea lions often spend time out of the water, if a dolphin remains on dry land for long, its own weight will crush its organs.

Her grandfather Henri Desmet, after watching American parachutists land in the marshes near his farm on June 6, used his flat-bottom boat to row dozens to dry land so they could continue fighting.