Soon enough we entered the Beagle Channel, with forests on either side, and the world resumed its familiar dimensions.

FORBES: Go with the Floe

Known as the Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers, or Cibbows for short, the group considers the stretch of Brooklyn's oceanfront an ideal spot to prepare for endurance swimming in waters as disparate and famous as the Bering Strait and the Beagle Channel.

WSJ: Brighton Beach: Brookyln's Swimming Mecca

Here you can watch flightless steamer ducks, Andean condors and guanaco (rare llama-like herbivores), and explore the glacier-lined Beagle Channel, made famous by Darwin and Fitzroy.

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