In the distance, the sun-dappled water of the Pacific glimmered enticingly, like a great treasure of silver coins.

The second shaman, Don Alberto, 46, Hamilton's current shamanic mentor, rests on the gunwale and winces at the sun-dappled waters.

Great expanses of sun-dappled blue water, more reservoir or lake than river, stretch above and below the concrete-and-earth barrier.

The gray-dappled horses stood in sun-dappled water, chest-deep, dozing, splashing droplets up from the surface with their slowly swishing tails.

For decades after the sinking, a probing hand could free a cache of ampuls from the sand, and they would float and dance like tiny Tinkerbells in the shallow, sun-dappled water.

No sun-dappled water.

They cruise out across the sun-dappled waters of Lake Wawasee, casting anchor about 40 yards from shore.

Past vast shelves of layered granite worn smooth where myriad multicolored fish swam lazily in the sun-dappled waters, serene and uncaring.

Small aquatic Quoppina the size of Phips darted to and fro in the sun-dappled water, propelled by rotating members modified by evolutionary processes into twin screws astern.

Willie Garvin, a brown figure in faded blue trunks, hung from the trapeze bar beneath the sail, thirty feet above the quiet, sun-dappled water, a slalom ski on his feet.