we are now in the pedro miguel lock. we have been tooling through gatun lake all day, and the culebra cut.
we all got tons of sun and boy is it hot!
but very cool to see the construction activities that continue to go on... dredging mostly.
mom got a spot on deck 13 at the front of the boat and we went up to the 14th where the glass only goes up half way.
but now we are in the room as that is the best spot to watch the lock goings on. we are lucky that all the action is on our side of the boat!
on the other side of the lake it took us 3 locks in a single set to lift the boat from sea level to the level of the lake. on the pacific side we go through this single lock first to bring us down to the level of a small lake, then across to the mira flores set of 2 locks. and then we will be in the pacific!
the engineering is flabbergasting here. so simple yet solving such hard problems. brilliant.
suffice to say there will be an overabundance of pictures.
tonight and tomorrow we are out at sea. next check in should be in puntarenas costa rica where steve and i will zipline in the morning and all 4 of us do a train, bus and boat tour that should be wonderful. hope all is well in the world!