Panama Canal

May 1, 2023

Today was our day long transit through the Panama Canal. I won’t go into any detail about the construction of this engineering marvel. In depth information can be found in your local library or through everyone’s friend, Google.

Brian and I had done a partial transit through the canal a number of years ago, but not the whole way through. The weather was exactly as I remembered, incredibly hot and humid. Consequently, I spent most on the day indoors only venturing onto our balcony periodically.

Brian is a lot more fascinated with the canal than I am. He took most of these pictures throughout the day. The heavy machinery pictured are the “mules”. These pieces of equipment help direct the ship through the locks. They get their names from the actual mules that were used when the canal was first built.

This is what most of the countryside looked like.

Notice how close to the sides our ship was as we made our way through the locks.

One more sea day and we’ll reach our next port, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. I don’t think the weather is going to cool off at all. We’ll just deal with it because we have a fun shore excursion planned!