thanks for your input Doeoflight! At one point I had actually thought to put someone on the bridge waiting for him, and have another meeting place story. But then I decided to have it that he had to make a choice of either walking into the foggy unknown or taking the boat over the water with the goal in sight.
Find it interesting after looking at so many amazing sceneries that I just had a dream a couple days ago. The best love story in a forest(sad, beautiful, happy love.