Monday, January 19, 2009

Panama Canal



We went through the Canal with the Queen Victoria.

We are in our cabin and using the WIFI which has been pretty fast most of the time. Right now we just went through the Pedro Miguel Locks and are heading toward the Miraflores Locks, both of which have webcams. You can probably google those terms and find links to each one. The Queen Victoria has been just ahead of us all day passing through the canal in the same direction as we are going. You can see the canal at any time because of the webcams at both the Miraflores Locks and the San Miguel Locks.

It has been a perfect day for transiting the canal, there have been some clouds that have kept the temperature comfortable most of the day. We entered the first lock before 9 am Whenever the full sun is out, we really feel the heat and the humidity. What an accomplishment it was for the Panama Canal to have been built so brilliantly so early in the 20th century.

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