User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/Lilac Ranks Total Drama/@comment-3483396-20140205052039/@comment-1874924-20140205062122

Dawn said that she "took a shortcut", so I figured that it was some kind of extradimentional travel that, from the perspective of our world, amounts to teleportation. The fact that she wasn't wet could be explained by time in her travel dimension passing differently than it does in ours, thereby giving her time to dry off. Simply walking on water probably wouldn't have been fast enough for her to get to shore far enough ahead of Jo to be meditating when Jo arrived.

Dawn's unusual locomotion methods were also evident at the team assignment. Most of the players could be seen bobbing up and down the way people do when they're running, but Dawn just glided in as smoothly as you please, as if she were standing on a conveyor belt.