...state. Ahead, quite a long distance away (too far to swim) was Manly Island. It looked beautiful, glistening in the early morning, like the island of Avalon wreathed in mist, beckoning; that waa s s where I was planning to go. I could see the fantastically tall trees on the foreshore, their tops were clouds, and their trunks were silver, gleaming in the w e early e e