April 12, 2023
In December of 2021, we did a partial transit of the Panama Canal. I wrote a post about that trip here. So I will refer you to that post to see the process of navigating the locks and won’t go into all those details here.
However, a full transit is so much better than the partial transit. We started our journey around sunrise as we headed toward the new locks from the Pacific side.
The Bridge of the Americas
Panama City in the distance at sunrise
A “Fork in the road,” – I guess it is a fork in the canal
A container ship is ahead of us as we navigate the locks.
Scenic cruising
The Mira Flores is the second set of locks: There is a viewing platform on land, and we viewed the sailing from land when we did the partial transit a couple of years before.
Looking backward
After we transit the last set of locks, the pilot is picked up in his little boat and they quickly speed away from us.
Tomorrow we dock in Cartagena, Columbia.
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