On Santa Astarta ((full)) | Stranded

His response? “Write about it.”

On Day 31, a mass of sargassum seaweed washed ashore, tangled with dozens of goose barnacles. The barnacles—boiled in salt water—provided protein and iodine. More importantly, inside the seaweed was a plastic crate stamped "M/V Star Asterisk, Hong Kong." Inside the crate: three sealed bags of dehydrated ramen, a tube of antiseptic cream, and a paperback romance novel in Thai. stranded on santa astarta

It was supposed to be a solo sailing trip to the Lesser Antilles. My GPS glitched during a squall about 30 nautical miles south of Guadeloupe. I saw a landmass that didn’t appear on my Navionics charts. Just white sand and a single, crumbling stone jetty. His response