Shibumi In The Panama

Our friends Mike & Karen are having an adventure on a very large sailboat right now. They're part of the crew of five people taking it from Ecuador, up and through the Panama Canal to some islands off the N/E corner of South America.

We spent the morning watching the locks at Miraflores for their boat ( I hoped they'd wave at the camera!). Gryper and the Missus have been following their trip to, but weren't able to watch this parts, so here are a couple of pix from the on-line cameras.

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Just before they entered the lock, the camera got moved, so we didn't get a good one of them coming in. They're the sailboat nearest the camera.

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Now they're travelling up towards the exit end of the lock. The water level is quite low.

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Here the water has come up and the locks are opening.

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Now they're travelling out of the lock headed east from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic.

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They have to be locked through again at Miraflores but there's no camera. Here they are (far right) just headed towards the next set.