Even the wealthiest cannot land a sea plane on the waters of Sun Moon Lake.

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Sun Moon Lake: Picture a pristine body of water.

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The Fanes legend has it that once every hundred years, a princess emerges from the Sass dla Porta to row around the lake beneath the full moon.

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In a section on water in outer space we learn that there is a lake-size layer of ice on the moon's south pole, that Mars once had rivers, that there is steam in the sun's atmosphere.

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And then we let the Lake Placid Lodge do what it does best: another fine meal, another gibbous moon, another night to sleep by the light of the fireplace.

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