It feels like our own private beach hut, just steps from the azure water, where the seaside soundtrack includes no buzzing motorboat engines, no radios blasting Italian pop music and no teenage gossip wafting from a nearby towel — it's just the sound of the lapping waves echoing off the cliffs, l'eco del mare.
Also noticeable was the peaceful quiet, as motorboats no longer zoom around the estuary.
(Since it's private, there are no annoying motorboats or jet skis to get in your way).
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.
(i) Class 1 and Class 2 motorboats shall proceed no closer than one-quarter mile from the shoreline except to debark or embark passengers, or while moored when passengers are ashore.
It splits the difference between a lightning-quick motorboat with no room for a pizza oven (which the WallyPower has) and an individually tailored Titanic that can do a party of 500 people but just 20 miles per hour.
Since it's isolated in the nature preserve, there are no noisy neighbors, no sounds of motorboats, only water, fishermen in the distance and dunes nearby to climb on.
Only the salient, sensory details stand out: Penang's banana-prawn dim-sum dish; dizziness atop Taipei's tallest skyscraper, belting out karaoke on opulent couches of trendy noraebang in Seoul, sore shoulders from gripping a raft dragged behind a speeding motorboat (whose driver displayed no demonstrable regard for safety) off the shore of Boracay's pristine beaches.
There are no stores, no gas stations, no movie theaters -- they are prohibited by zoning regulations -- and no gas-powered motorboats are allowed on any of the three lakes -- Tuxedo, Wee Wah and Little Wee Wah.
With Selamawit I visited Walatta Petros' monastery, for which you have to travel for about an hour by motorboat across Lake Tana; it's very remote — no running water, no electricity.
