Panama Canal transit/Bye bye Caribbean hell-ooooo Pacific!
Tuesday 7 th March, Amador, Panama City. Still in Panamá! Oh yes indeedy, still here. But we're on the Pacific side now, yay. You know what that means....we made it through the Canal!!! So because we're very excited about that (well, Karl and I are, Gráinne's a bit more blasé having been there done that twice before) I'm going to inflict a Panama Canal blog entry on you. So after all our prepping and cleaning and fixing and paperworking and waiting around for parts-ing we finally decided we were ready for the transit and got in touch with our agent, Stan the Man, to let him know we were rearing to go anytime he could get us a slot. So he got us a slot. A week and a half away. Sigh. Might as well have been years. So we did a bit more local exploring, cycles through the forest, picnics at Fort Lorenzo, incursions into Fort Sherman and that sort of thing. Actually the Aeronaval suddenly started doing some exercises that involved a lot of shooting, machine gun takatak