From Gatun Lake to the Panama Canal was a three minute boat ride. We had to duck under the 1907 railway bridge to get into the canal proper. Our trip was about 15 kilometers and we passed 4 or 5 big ships in that time. I think that each of them were registered in Singapore. We saw frigate birds in the sky and the ubiquitous black buzzards. Then we motored into some side channels where we saw three types of monkeys, a snail kite, a big basilisk lizard, tiny long nosed bats and lots of flowering plants. While we were under some howler monkeys we hears a loud plop and a ball of poo landed in the water. The fish immediately went to town on the poo like they had not eaten any poo for months!
Our Captain and Guide
Looking back to the Culebra cut
On the Panama Canal
Will we make it under the bridge?
A very tight fit
Let the big guys pass
114 years old bridge, glad we went under and not over it
On the left is an old lighthouse
Howler monkey at siesta time
These flowers were very cool! I don't recall ever seeing anything like it
A Capuchin monkey aka the organ grinder monkey or Ross's pet on friends
So cute but very fast through the trees
Action shot of a capuchin flying
Always on the look out
The side channels go on and on
A line of 13 tiny bats
They are long nosed bats or proboscis bats
The best shot I could get in a moving boat
These look like a line of bark from a distance
Hanging on
Here in the tropics the light fades fast
More Howler monkeys
Upside down is alright
The big bellies allow them to digest low quality leaves
Howler hanging on with just a tail
Basilisk Lizard was two and a half feet long
These Tamarin Monkeys were the fastest of them all
The smallest of Panamanian monkeys and found only in Colombia and Panama
Odd faces with mohawk hairdos
Tamarin tough
A ginger but with a receding hairline
Tamarin one to headquarters, over..
The Snail Kite was uncooperative for photos
