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fur seals, and again the captain maneuvered the     By this time only a handful of folks - some looking
           boat close enough to get a good whiff of the       pretty green - clung to the deck as we approached
           small island’s residents. I had really developed my   our next island, home to one of the most famous
           seagoing photographic techniques by this time      navigational icons in the world. The red Eclaireurs
           and a good thing as wave after wave crashed over   Lighthouse is the symbol of Ushuaia, built in 1919,
           the bow. The wind was blowing so hard that spray   and is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the
           whipping horizontally blurred some of the videos.   lighthouse at the end of the world. That honor goes
           I held onto the rail for dear life hoping my camera   to the light on Isla Hornos. But that small quibble
           wouldn’t fall out of my now numb hands.            didn’t dim the magic of the moment. Even the


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