(1) Salt crystals encrust your shoes and coat your pants cuffs, and you begin to think your own cells are turning to salt.

(2) The mussels encrust navigation buoys

(3) Once it takes hold it encrusts boat hulls and propellers, and chokes pipes and aquaculture.

(4) The fronts were encrusted with dried mud, collected over the years.

(5) Every surface is encrusted in sponges, corals and weed.

(6) Outcrops of these green sandstone ledges are so encrusted with fossil oysters that they look like rubble from ancient middens.

(7) Washing out her blood encrusted hair, she watched the dirty brown stains run down the bath floor, in twisted patterns, that stuck in some places.

(8) The rim of the windowpane was encrusted with snow.

(9) This is probably the most colourful zone of our inshore waters and rocks are often a warm, pinkish-purple colour, thanks to encrusting algae.

(10) They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish.

(11) There is a good covering of marine life, and many rocks are encrusted by a hard pink growth.

(12) It was hard to tell of course considering the state of him, hard to see beyond the filth that encrusted his body and clothing.

(13) Steep sloping walls and cascading waterfalls of coral encrusted the features like a blanket of molten lava.

(14) That gritty feeling in my eyes, as if the lids were encrusted with sand; it would pass.

(15) Being in such shallow water, the coral encrusted wreck is a mini-ecosystem in itself and snorkeling here is like being in a large aquarium.

(16) A shoal of silvery pollack hurried away above some huge boulders covered in brilliant pink and red encrusting algae.

(17) The corners of his mouth were still encrusted with chocolate from his cookies.

(18) When I arrived, and removed my glasses to take my helmet off, I found I could see much better without them thanks to the ice crystals encrusting the lenses.

(19) A thick layer of ice encrusted the surface of the dark water.

(20) Though the island is of volcanic origin, corals have encrusted her flanks and over the millennia these have built reefs, growing farther and farther out to sea.