Gatun Lake, Barro Colorado Island, Pedro Miguel & Miraflores Locks
Last night we discovered the majestic engineering of the Panama Canal with a successful crossing of the Gatun Locks from the Caribbean side into Gatun Lake.
The morning rainforest breeze with the sunrise coloring the sky filled our senses with an aspiration to meet with the diversity of this realm. This is the dominion of very unique species on the planet. Panama and Costa Rica together boast almost 6% of the world’s biodiversity in an area of almost 127.000 km2 (49,034 square miles). This percentage of organisms live in an area of around 0.08% of the continental land mass of the world.
This day we enjoyed the unique opportunity to understand the different interactions within the forest of Barro Colorado Island. This 1500 hectare island is considered to be the center of knowledge in tropical ecology. Vast numbers of publications have been communicated and distributed to the world from these grounds.
Our outings provided special moments including howler monkeys performing their loud howls assuring that this is their territory. We also saw Central American spider monkeys, agoutis, American crocodiles, chestnut mandibled toucans, long-nosed bats, and more. When I stop to count the number of species we saw, it is so many that it seems like a fairy tale.
We welcomed with enthusiasm the pilot who would take us through the last section of the Panama Canal. The Chagres River being dammed, the Culebra cut, and the last locks of Pedro Miguel and Miraflores proved that the task of building the Canal was a combination of visionary technology and hard work.
The bridge of the Americas crowned our entry to the Pacific Ocean. The city of Panama on our port side decorated the night with luminosity. Today, nature and human imagination conquered our mind and soul, and both inspired us to initiate a better tomorrow.
Last night we discovered the majestic engineering of the Panama Canal with a successful crossing of the Gatun Locks from the Caribbean side into Gatun Lake.
The morning rainforest breeze with the sunrise coloring the sky filled our senses with an aspiration to meet with the diversity of this realm. This is the dominion of very unique species on the planet. Panama and Costa Rica together boast almost 6% of the world’s biodiversity in an area of almost 127.000 km2 (49,034 square miles). This percentage of organisms live in an area of around 0.08% of the continental land mass of the world.
This day we enjoyed the unique opportunity to understand the different interactions within the forest of Barro Colorado Island. This 1500 hectare island is considered to be the center of knowledge in tropical ecology. Vast numbers of publications have been communicated and distributed to the world from these grounds.
Our outings provided special moments including howler monkeys performing their loud howls assuring that this is their territory. We also saw Central American spider monkeys, agoutis, American crocodiles, chestnut mandibled toucans, long-nosed bats, and more. When I stop to count the number of species we saw, it is so many that it seems like a fairy tale.
We welcomed with enthusiasm the pilot who would take us through the last section of the Panama Canal. The Chagres River being dammed, the Culebra cut, and the last locks of Pedro Miguel and Miraflores proved that the task of building the Canal was a combination of visionary technology and hard work.
The bridge of the Americas crowned our entry to the Pacific Ocean. The city of Panama on our port side decorated the night with luminosity. Today, nature and human imagination conquered our mind and soul, and both inspired us to initiate a better tomorrow.
