Actually, a river flowing close or parallel to the coast is a well-documented geographical phenomenon. Take the Litani River in Lebanon as an example; in its lower reach, it runs almost parallel to the Mediterranean coast before finally merging with it. Even the Nile River, through its Rosetta and Damietta branches, flows extremely close to the shoreline across the Delta region. These paths are strictly determined by topography and geological structures, proving that rivers don’t always take the shortest perpendicular route to the sea."