I believe that the theme is that when traveling, the actions of others can greatly change the trajectory of the trip. The people he met while traveling gave him an experience that money can't buy; he got to watch the turtles come onto the beach and lay their eggs all thanks to the kind people he met.
I found that Winchester is amazing at descriptions. My favorite example is "it is possible to see a hundred kilometres in all directions, and the ocean -- looking like an unblemished sheet of hammered pewter -- stretched empty into every horizon" (266-267). He describes this scenery so well to where if I closed my eyes I could imagine this scene.
Another example of a description is "water warm and velvet soft" (268). This is an excellent description of the ocean water. Also, he uses alteration with "water warm" to give a sort of rhythm to what he is saying.
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