cultural research |
The Panama Canal is a rite of passage for cruisers. Today we hit this milestone. The entire day is set aside to do the transit. We
sailing under the Atlantic Bridge |
5000 car transport ship beside us |
Today’s transit is a very big deal on board. People are up early with their faces pressed against the glass at the front of the boat in one of the ship’s lounges or lining the outer decks to get what they think are the best views possible. I’m not desperate to joint these masses, so I
locks are opening |
There are 2 sets of locks referred to as the Panama Canal – Gatun and Agua Clara. We are travelling on the Gatun ones – these are the old ones (105 years old) and are for smaller vessels. It would be interesting to be in the new locks just to see how huge some of the ships are. Cost to transit the canal is based on size of
we are going up |
At the Gatun Locks (where we are) there are 2 lanes allowing ships to pass each other one side going up and the other going down. This is very cool. We pass a shipping
tanker |
Throughout the morning a Panama Canal historian narrates our transit. This is very cool, while in the locks
another tanker |
onlookers cheering |
2 comments:
Really sounds incredibly interesting !
That must have been pretty cool, I always thought it would be fun to take the boat through there!
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