It does not usually take long for most newbies to stand up and paddle themselves across the water.
Across the water, the lights of Brooklyn suspend like fireflies in the night air.
It's a bit different if you are in Spain, and living just a few miles across the water.
"Having only to come across the water (River Tamar) from Torpoint is very handy for my wife, " he said.
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The inn is set on Lake Wakatipu's northeastern shore, looking out across the water to the 6, 000-foot Humboldt Mountains.
It was set hard by the harbor wall, with Mweelrea Mountain across the water, and disgracefully gray skies above.
Films will project across the water through the glass wall of the kitchen.
"I just thought at the minute a move across the water wasn't the right move, " Allen told the Linfield website.
Renters will be near the Navy base and local parks as well as Coronado Island, which is just across the water.
But given the reaction across the water, local party treasurers should not be counting on a bonus from the taxpayer anytime soon.
Over five and a half million feet of boom has been laid across the water to block and absorb the approaching oil.
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Across the water from the pier, where commuters stepped onto the morning ferry, smoke and steam still emanated from the altered Manhattan skyline.
Two communities either side of a Devon river have joined together for a Jubilee Party on a boat half way across the water.
The line cut across the water to the side of the boat, then veered beneath the hull before re-emerging a minute or two later.
Lifeboat maintenance has moved across the water from the site to Cobbs Quay at Holes Bay until the new facility is up and running.
Just across the water, Singapore's free-traders have watched back-tracking with alarm.
Most incredible of all is the size of the Anzani engine - just 25 horsepower, barely enough oomph to carry even a tiny plane across the water.
So, while the country has watched fascinated and appalled at developments at Savita's inquest over the past fortnight, 22 of their fellow citizens ended their pregnancies across the water.
It is the antithesis of a deafening cigarette boat speeding across the water as a motorcycle would on land, as fast as it can go just like a momentum investor.
The tide has changed and a south wind forces me to land this particular day on the shore near the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, which sits across the water from Inverness.
On May 30th, the day after Mr Obasanjo was sworn in as president, militant Ijaw youths in the delta attacked Itsekiri villages just across the water from a large Chevron oil plant.
She tells the story of early exploration and the fascination with the exotic, detailing the crafty manoeuvring of foreign trade with China and the many influences that flowed back and forth across the water.
And as the international markets increasingly see sterling as a 'safe haven' in uncertain times, the prospect of a strengthening pound would make it even more difficult for local exporters to sell their goods across the water.
Many within the party still regard the former member for Caernarfonshire as the "prince across the water" and the content and the nuances of his message will undoubtedly be debated in the bars into the wee small hours.
"A lot people - even though the numbers here are lower - are going across the water to universities in England or Scotland and getting their qualifications and coming home and there are simply no jobs for them, " Ms Allen said.
Across the water, a small herd of elephants, two adults and a child, emerged from the brush, and closer to the canoe, a herd of water buffalo lay all but submerged in the bleary green waters, escaping the late morning sun.
Behind the bar: the Guinness tap, the Smithwicks tap, the lager taps, the line of optics, the neatly stacked rows of glasses, and a high stool that sat by a wee slit of window that had a view across the water toward Mweelrea.
The downtown business district and Coal Harbour are popular for condo dwellers who want killer views across the water, and the Olympics gave construction a boost along Southeast False Creek, the body of water that separates the West End from the West Side.
It has only to look across the water to Europe to see how failure to manage the withdrawal of stimulus in an orderly manner can push economies back into recession, making it that much harder to tackle the ultimate goal of lowering government debt.
On the Lake Fork of the Gunnison river, not far from the Taylor drama, one rafting company was hit with a civil trespass suit in 2001, but went out of business before the courts could resolve it. (A fence now runs across the water on the Lake Fork.) And what about all the times that rafters get stuck on the rocks?
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