World Cruise 2013
January 9, 2013
Today the ship arrived at the Panama Canal. We started going thru the Gatun Locks at about 6:30 AM. The Gatun Locks, takes you from the Caribbean Sea to Gatun Lake in three steps. At about 8 AM the ship was in Gatun Lake. It was here we waited several hours for ships coming from the Pacific to the Caribbean Sea to arrive before we entered the narrow part of the canal, which has on-way traffic for the larger ships. The narrow part of the canal, called the Culebra Cut, where the cut had to be made thru the continental divide is interesting. I was up on the eighth floor of the ship and to me the cut was from 4 to 5 times higher than the eighth floor of the ship and this to be done over hundred years ago is impressive. After we got thru the channel we arrived at the Pedro Miguel Mira Locks at about 1 PM. This lock of one step lowered us from the Gatun Lake to the level of the lake on the Pacific side. From here it was only a short distance to the Miraflores Locks a series of two steps where we arrived at about 2:15 PM. We departed the Miraflores Locks at about 3:25 PM and we were at the level of the Pacific Ocean.
The Panama Canal is one of the finest man-made wonders of the world and is considered to be the Eight Wonder of the Modern World.
Below are some pictures taken from the ship as we went the Panama Canal.
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| Panama Canal - Mule |
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| Panama Canal - Locks on the Atlantic side |
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| Panama Canal - Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side |
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| Panama Canal - Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side looking toward Gatun Lake |
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| Panama Canal - Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side looking back at the locks |
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| Panama Canal - Taken as we are entering Gatun Lake |
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| Panama Canal - Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side |
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| Panama Canal - The dam for the Gatun Lake |
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| Panama Canal - Gatun Lake with dredging machine |
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| Panama Canal - Gatun Lake with dredging machine |
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| Panama Canal - Taken on Gatun Lake of the prison |
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| Panama Canal - Taken on Gatun Lake of the Gallliard Cut |
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| Panama Canal - Taken on Gatun Lake of the Gailliard Cut |
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| Panama Canal - Taken of Gatun Lake in the Gailliard Cut of the Centennial Bridge |
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| Panama Canal - Taken on Gatun Lake of the new locks being built |
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| Panama Canal - Taken on Gatun Lake looking toward the Pedro Migual Lock |
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| Panama Canal - Taken at the Pedro Migual Lock |
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| Panama Canal - Taken at the Pedro Migual Lock |
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| Panama Canal - Taken at the Pedro Migual Lock looking toward the Miraflores Lake |
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| Panama Canal - Taken at the Pedro Migual Lock |
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| Panama Canal - Taken at the Miraflores Locks looking back at the Gatin Lakemst |
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| Panama Canal - Taken at the Miraflores Lock looking toward the Miraflores Lake |
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| Panama Canal - Taken on the Miraflores lake looking back at the locks |
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| Panama Canal - Dam for the Miraflores Lake |
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| Panama Canal - Miraflores Locks looking toward the Pacific Ocean |
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| Panama Canal - Miraflores Locks looking toward the Pacific Ocean |
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| Panama Canal - Miraflores Locks building with people on shore viewing the locks |
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| Panama Canal - Miraflores Locks showing the water running out of the lock |
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| Panama Canal - Looking back at the Miraflores Locks |
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Panama Canal - Taken of Panama City
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| Taken at the exit of the Panama Canal |
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| Panama City |
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