My goal by getting to dry land it to get a battle leader's charge off, so everybody knows.  H4H, now that I am large, is the shallow water still considered difficult terrain for me?  Basically I need to know if I can charge through it.  I was intially not concerned with it's reach, because when using battle leader's charge, I don't provoke any AoO for movement.  So I'd get an good attack in, then be able to go toe to toe with it.  The large size is good idea, reach is a good thing, especially if it stays in the deep water.