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 PUERTO VARADOR, Bolivia (AP) - The landlocked Bolivian navy finally found its own sea to sail.
A murky inland ocean created by months of catastrophic flooding in Bolivia's lowland east gave the navy's fleet of riverboats a fresh sense of purpose when their crews stepped in to rescue stranded villagers and round up livestock drowning in millions of acres of inundated cow pasture.
But as Bolivians commemorate the loss of their Pacific coast in their annual Day of the Sea on Friday, the floodwaters have finally begun to trickle away, leaving freshwater sailors stuck on their old dream of regaining the seashore Chile seized in 1879.
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