Our transit through the Panama Canal got delayed until Saturday February 21. We'll leave the marina in the afternoon, go through Gatun Locks between 3 and 6 pm EST, spend the night in Gatun Lake and finish the transit throughout the day on Sunday, finished hopefully by 4 pm EST. If you want to try and catch us live, there's a web cam at all the locks:
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
We've been busy getting some projects done on the boat. We also made a side trip to the Rio Chagres, a river nearby that enters a rainforest nature preserve. We motored up the river a few miles and felt like we had sailed into the Land of the Lost. We saw many tropical birds and outrageous butterflies, along with howler monkeys that sound an unearthly howl when the sun goes down. We kayaked into smaller creeks and did some exploring. There's jaguar and crocodiles in the forest, but we didn't see any (no wookies either). Nor did we do any swimming in the river. Quite a different natural world from the coyotes, elk and wolves in Montana.
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| Martin goes up the mast to check on the radar. |
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| Entering the Rio Chagres |
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| At anchor |
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| Marzan goes kayaking |
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| little song birds wanted to build a nest at the bow of the boat |
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| Great sailing on the way back to Colon to wait for Canal transit |
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