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Wilderness of Waves is a blog by solo sailor, filmmaker & artist Olivia O Wyatt.

She is sailing her 34 ft. boat, Juniper, to destinations guided by humpback whale migration patterns.

In August 2019, she single-handed from San Diego to Hawaii. It took her 23 days. She and Juniper are now in French Polynesia.

Follow along as she wanders the seas in search of magic.

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I think Fiji might be the place at the end of every rainbow.

Offshore I only saw my reflection through a foggy mirror, and I smelled like low tide, and I only showered twice in 19 days, but I wore this seashell flower crown and pink lipstick whenever I could.

I love living on a sailboat. Today I worked, I sailed, I swam, I met a starfish. I have often fantasized about being a starfish. Life would be a lot easier without a brain or a heart. Just lying there, clinging to coral, stoned on the sea. And if you were a shark or a manta ray or an Alaskan king crab, you could eat one of my limbs and it wouldn’t matter, because without a brain I wouldn’t register as much pain. And as soon as you swam away with my limb hanging from your lips, I would start to regrow a new one, because I’m made of stardust, just like everything else, which makes me magic, just like everything else.

Juniper and the sunset. 📸 @wilderness_offshore

9796.57 Nautical Miles! Juniper and I are slowly making our way around the world.

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