Day 4 & 5 - Panama

Took me a couple of hours to find the bloody office - even with map coordinates I had a hard time!?

Then my luck turned - the guy managing the ferry office is from Montreal - 15 mins later I had my tickets and away I went to the Panama Yacht Club!

When I was here last it was a small shack with about 6 tables clustered together and one bartender/waitress. Now, its a full fledged restaurant and bar with a adjacent Comfort Inn

of course the mooring has not changed - the same place minus my boat!

on the right of the above pic you can see the Miraflores bridge (part of it) which is the gateway to the Miraflores locks - entrance to the canal from the Pacific

When the canal was built and run by the Americans they had towns set up for the engineers, families and army on either side of the canal (Balboa and Colon) - the Balboa buildings, etc are still being maintained and used as offices or lived in, but the Colon side the town has totally fallen apart