A man and woman are at the beach, but their position has flooded. They are waist deep in water.
The tide might be out of place depending on the time of day.
Why are they still sitting in the water?
I clearly recall choosing hell over high water.
scene: beach description: A man and woman are at the beach, but their position has flooded. They are waist deep in water. uncanny: The tide might be out of place depending on the time of day. entities: Tide_table, Parasol_(disambiguation). caption: I clearly recall choosing hell over high water.
A reference to the idiom: "hell or high water": in this case, they were literally given the choice, and despite apparently choosing "hell", they were given "high water", as depicted.