I think the theme of Winchester's essay is that your travel experiences give you more wealth than anything money can buy. This is evident when he says "It was in that instant that I realized something: that in this astonishing grand conjunction- was perhaps the greatest wealth of experience that any one individual could ever know in one moment." He did not have to pay anything to see the turtles or the lunar eclipse, yet it was one of the most incredible things he had experienced.
A place where his language struck me was when he talks about the "velvet blackness of the night". It really gives you an image of how pitch black the night is. Another place I found his language effective was when he describes the mother turtle shoveling the sand back over her eggs and "battering" her weary self back into the surf. I loved this because it shows the exhausting task that the mother goes through. It makes the image of what he saw so vivid to the reader.
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