Camille

When we went to pick up Dad, he appeared out of the woods like a giant swampy gorilla, shimmering in the headlights of our yellow Toyota station wagon. He had been missing for three days. We got a phone call during the night, from a marina in McClellanville,which was at least an hour away. We drove in the dark down a dirt road until we spotted him.###
"I anchored on Bird Key," he said, "and when I went back to the boat, it was gone." Somehow the sandy bottom had slipped, and the boat was gone, and my Dad and his thermos were stuck. He survived by eating sea gull eggs and sipping beer from the red thermos he was lucky to have.###