The Voyeur - Closing

Since the buoy was not light enough to follow the movement of the waves, the water level rose and fell according to their rhythms against the sides of the cone. Despite the water's transparency, the detail of the substructures could not be distinguished -- merely a number of dancing shapes: chains, rocks, trailing seaweed, or perhaps reflections of the mass above water.
The salesman thought, once again, that in three hours he would be on land.