The few small shacks along the shore were closed the morning I was there, but advertised low rental prices for paddleboats, kayaks and no-frills fibreglass motorboats.

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By the shore is a small patch of lighter green surrounded by dark forest.

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As we floated past rows of towering ahuejote trees, all was peaceful, save for the barks of a small dog running along the shore.

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At seven, we reached the shore of a small frozen lake.

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In a dictionary that Christopher Koonooka translated from Yupik to English, there are words describing wavy ice, shore fast ice, small cakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles.

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There were some 50 or 60 small, square houses built along the shore, each a few metres from its neighbour.

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The contaminants included emissions from small factories and crab farms along the shore.

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They have three children, two sons and a daughter, and when the kids were small the family lived closer to the shore, in Rumson, New Jersey.

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The road rises, dips, twists, and turns along the eastern shore as it passes the occasional house, amid small herds of dairy and beef cattle behind barbed wire fences.

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Stop by the historic Avalon Theatre, built in 1921 and dubbed the "Showplace of the Eastern Shore, " and discover why the town ranked number eight in the book The 100 Best Small Towns in America.

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