All Joshua and I wanted was to be left alone with ourselves. Any other thing did not exist, had never existed. You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea.
Chapter 1, p. 3.

A huge barracuda takes off after it and snatches the flying fish at the top of the arc. The really amazing thing was seeing the barracuda contorting its entire body and beating its tail, modifying its trajectory to follow the prey, which had angled off to the left at the top of its leap.
Chapter 2, p. 14.

At first they all thought I was going to anchor there. They were waiting, hoping, afraid to believe.... But they have no boat, and I have no dinghy.
Chapter 3, p. 23.

Atom was rolled over near the Cape and emerged with her deck as flat as a raft. Awahnee encountered...