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Ninety seconds on Playa Mar Brava
From the fishing cove of Polocué to Piedra Run, walk the whole beach on a windy afternoon. On a big day the surf breaks white right across the bay.
Piedra Run stands at the southern end, ringed by sea at the tide line. Its name comes from the sound the Pacific swell and the south wind make against it, and local legend says Dutch corsairs hid treasure inside. A lookout named for the rock looks down over the water from the road above.
The Puñihuil islets close the bay to the south, so you can take the penguin boats in the morning and walk the sand in the afternoon.
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