Casey Beaumaris

Casey Beaumaris is the main character of Wayward Strand. She is a fourteen-year-old girl who lives in a small town in Australia. She likes to read and is an amateur reporter for her school newspaper. She is the daughter of Ruth Beaumaris, the head nurse aboard an airborne hospital.

Casey comes up to the ship at her mother's request, to visit the patients and keep them company. Secretly, Casey is planning to write an article about the ship for her school newspaper.