The New River terminates in a deep and wide lagoon, with daunting waves and quicksand on the bottom.
I'd taken a canoe across a wide lagoon and into territory controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or L.T.T.E., a guerrilla group that was fighting the Sri Lankan government.
A long, narrow, sandy peninsula from which Cape Rojo projects eastward shelters the 12-mile- (19-km) wide lagoon from the Gulf.
In June, Sylvia and Giddings and the rest of the team undertook to explore a vast graveyard of sunken ships in the forty-mile-wide lagoon, where little scientific work had previously been done.
Off to Torcello for lunch, jolting across the wide lagoon, the wind blowing the dark-green water to whiteness, past San Michele with its brick walls, the island on which Stravinsky and Diaghilev lay buried the real and the false glory, one moving past the other, though there are times when one cannot tell which is which.
Off to Torcello for lunch, jolting across the wide lagoon, the wind blowing the dark-green water to whiteness, past San Michele with its brick walls, the island on which Stravinsky and Diaghilev lay buried — the real and the false glory, one moving past the other, though there are times when one cannot tell which is which.
The island's stunning 3-mile-wide lagoon is encircled by a rectangular reef and a dozen small islands, or motus.
After flying almost five hours over the empty Pacific, the turboprop carrying me and a scattering of passengers tilted for landing, revealing a 15-mile-wide lagoon pocked with 14 vivid green islands ribboned with peacock hues of turquoise, emerald, azure, indigo, cobalt and violet blue.
With 450 and 750 permanent residents, respectively, Baraulu and Nusa Hope are densely clustered household groups that occupy barrier islands near narrow, 200-m-wide lagoon passages.
Still, I'm glad I went to the north-east coast because it is quite astonishingly beautiful, with sandy coves and rocky bays lined with seagrape trees, streams leaping down the mountains in a series of waterfalls then spreading out into wide lagoons between grassy banks before taking a final spin to the sea.
