[Jamestown1630]

She could at least have learned how to paddle, to add some verisimilitude...

[verum ago]

She could at least have learned how to paddle, to add some verisimilitude...

I think part of what's going on is that the water is so shallow she can't 'dig' the paddle in normally without it noticeably bottoming out; we're watching her trying to improvise a shallow paddle stroke in real time that doesn't give the whole thing away (and utterly failing).