Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.
I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.
Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.