Anne & Carolyn's Panama Canal Cruise

Day 12 ~ Monday, April 8, 2013: Panama Canal

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Ships waiting at the Panama Canal	Carolyn on deck (pink shirt on right)	The canal at first light

Construction on north side of canal	Sunrise ~ Photo by CWS	Bridge of the Americas

Approaching Miraflores ~ Photo by CWS	Miraflores ~ Photo by CWS	Crew taking cables to the mules ~ Photo by CWS

Sunbelt Spirit at sunrise	Sunbelt Spirit entering lock	Crew & mules ~ Photo by CWS

Miraflores lock gates opening ~ Photos by CWS

Crew member sleeping ~ Photo by CWS	Mules pulling ship	Narrow space between ship & wall

Nearing end of Miraflores ~ Photo by CWS	Ship's photographers (but they didn't put my picture in the video)	End of Miraflores locks ~ Photo by CWS

Construction along canal	Nearing Pedro Miguel Lock ~ Photo by CWS	ms Statendam and Tug boats

Land	Pedro Miguel Lock ~ Photos by CWS

Mules pulling ship	Hinge on gate	Gate

End of Pedro Miguel lock	More construction	Centennial Bridge

Construction site	Passing under the Centennial Bridge

A tug & Sunbelt Spirit following behind	Watching the canal go by	Carolyn waving from upper deck

River entering canal	Jungle	Third Bridge

Preparing to enter Gatun Locks	Rowboat	Sunbelt Spirit & ms Statendam

Gatun Locks

Sunbelt Spirit passing through the locks	Photos by CWS	Sunbelt Spirit at end of Gatun Locks

Colon	Ships waiting to enter canal	Colon port

Colon		Ships at sea

More information

The Path Between The Seas, by David McCullough
Bridge of the Americas, Panama
Centennial Bridge, Panama
Map of the Panama Canal (drawing)

Photos in header: Niagara Falls; Big Sur, CA; Golden Gate Bridge, CA; Sunset on the Baltic Sea;
Virginia Creeper Trail, VA; Emerald Lake, Yukon, Canada; Glacier Bay, Alaska; Sunset on the Pacific; Triple Falls at DuPont Forest, NC.
Header Photo Credits: All Anne S. Napier except Niagara Falls by Herman Stubblefield.

Updated December 9, 2013