We are cutting our way through the smooth water towards the old industrial heart of Edinburgh.
The sea is calm, thistledown drifts over the water towards the Isle of May, a green reclining figure, strangely close.
Four men then form a human chain and move into the brown, waist-deep water towards the car.
A boy in a yellow sarong runs into the water, towards fishing boats bobbing serenely in the Indian Ocean.
Also the drag of the slantline downtilted towards ocean's sucking further still of streams of water towards itself.
It comes from the coastguard ship Ladoga and within seconds it's sweeping across the water towards them.
It splashes into the water just offshore; strangely satisfied, Uncle Jimmy opens his shirt to welcome what looks like a giant beast surging through the water towards him.
In so doing they push warm surface water towards Asia and draw cooler, deep water to the surface in the central and eastern Pacific, which chills the atmosphere.
The distinct body of water towards the top right part of the image is Taatsiin Tsagaan Lake, one of the four saline lakes that make up the Valley of the Lakes.
In the suburb of Rosalie, Scott MacKenzie wiped the sweat from his brow as he floated in an inflatable dinghy over the filthy, spider-speckled water towards his house.
"He must have started down there," Greenhouse said in his broad Bronx accent, pointing across the exposed bedrock, across the water, towards the tall grass in front of the open-air Delacorte theatre, "and finished here".
