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My four years in the US Navy many years ago       slowly streamed through the two cabin doors and
            inoculated me. I had instructed Mary to focus on   along very narrow side passageways for a better
            the horizon when she was feeling bad, and she was   view. Rails, low so that they wouldn’t block the
            already staring out the window. We had only been   views from cabin interior, didn’t seem like much
            on the water for 15 minutes and had nearly four   protection and the boat rocked back and forth. I
            hours to go.                                      was amazed at how close to the island the captain
             Our first destination was Alicia Island, a big   maneuvered the boat for perfect photo ops of
            lump of what looked like a volcanic rock with     these giant mammals.
            several large South American sea lions. Most of us   I soon developed a technique of holding my



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