Panama Musings

Hi – I am at an “internet café” at the YMCA here in Balboa. I will try to send you some pictures.

1 – Eliza at Gatun Locks the day we took a cab there to see what was in store for Estrela.

2 – Abigail on her birthday aboard Estrela (3/26/04)

3 – Farewell to the Atlantic; the first Gatun lock closes behind Estrela (3/28/04)

4 – Estrela at sea, sailing from Bahamas to Panama (3/13/04)

5 – We made it to Panama! (3/17/04)



1 – Eliza writing her Panama Canal transit journal

2 – Eliza writing canal journal

3 – Eliza writing canal journal now in Balboa

4 – The girls’ birds nests, the day we arrived in Panama (3/17/04)

5 – Kyle with provisions for our canal transit (3/27/04)

6 – In the lock. It’s a long way up! (3/28/04)

7 – Estrela fendered up and ready to go (3/27/04)

8 – Gatun Lock

9 – Kyle spotted this big crocodile on the bank of Gaillard Cut

10 – Minute Man Yacht Club Burgee, Block Island burgee, Seven Seas Cruising Association Burgee and Panama Flag (botton to top) In Miraflores locks (3/28/04).

11 – Estrela’s Panama Canal crew – approaching the Bridge of the Americas, Balboa.

12 – Passing under the Bridge of the Americas, Balboa – the end of the canal. The traditional sailors’ toast to Neptune upon our arrival in the Pacific. (3/28/04)

13 – Abigail drawing her picture journal under dodger during canal transit. (3/28/04)

14 – We’re at a mooring now at the Balboa Yacht Club; looking back to the north at the Bridge of the Americas.


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