I'm interested in the ways in which these images blend and overlap: We move so quickly from the physical landscape (rocky shores surrounded by water) to the immaterial (shame now stands in for the waters around those shores) and back to the material object (the paperwork which now, in a way, stands in for Richard's shame!).
3. Bora Bora, Tahiti This "romantic island" of a number of islands within French Polynesia is 18 miles long with white sandy shores surrounded by a lagoon.
Perched upon rocky shores and surrounded by weathered pines, the 19th-century tower and adjacent cottage comprise one of America's most photographed lighthouses.
Situated on Tahoe's largely undeveloped eastern shore, the lodge is surrounded by gardens and has views across the water to snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
Konstanz itself is a "political island," for it is the only part of Germany on the lake's southwestern shore; it is entirely surrounded by Swiss territory, except on the northeast where it fronts on the lake.
By the time we were half a mile from the shore, we found ourselves surrounded by great flocks of herring gulls, guillemots and razorbills, sitting on the surface, watching a constellation of tiny flashes as shoals of sandeels were herded by the mackerel far below.
But, in terms of distance from the nearest road, Cartographic Technologies, a Vermont firm that had to come up with the answer for a Land Rover advertisement, gives the prize to Bridger Lake, in Wyoming, in the northern Rocky Mountains.The lake is small, clear and surrounded by shores dotted with bluebells and trees (many, alas, blackened by the 1988 Yellowstone fire).
"Most residents are frequently out in their yards," said Ms. Koppeis, for whom this 1.5-square-mile village on the North Shore of Nassau County — all but surrounded by Mill Neck Bay, Long Island Sound and Oyster Bay Harbor — brings back childhood memories of rural North Carolina.
At meals and on shore excursions, she found herself surrounded by people who could barely take their eyes off each other, let alone strike up a conversation with a stranger.
The guide, a geologist named Carole Augereau, gave us the rundown as we trudged up: how half a billion years ago this area was the north shore of a vast supercontinent surrounded by shallow warm seas, teeming with the earliest forms of multicellular animal life.
