Today is Thursday, the 10th of February: right Now we are traversing the locks of the Panama Canal! This is a very cool experience. They've given lots of history of the building of the canal, and it's an amazing place. WE've watched the process starting on the forward deck sipping our morning coffee and just watching the tug boats assist, the locks open and close, and the "locomotives" that act as mules to help stabilize the ship as it sits in the locks. It seems they have an active Web camera that continuously broadcasts the activity, so I'm pretty sure we were famous for about 15 seconds..What an experience!
Next we go into the huge man-made lake, Gatun Lake, then it's on to the the Gatun Locks, then a shorter canal voyage to the Caribbean. The whole process takes about 9 hours. We have about 15 miles to go before we get to the Lake itself.
Love to all, I'll be in touch..after this we travel to Columbia, then after an afternoon and night there (leave at midnight), the it's a 3 day sail to Miami. It's going fast!
Love, DAD/UR
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