Sapphire II of London - Panama Canal Day!

The sun is shining, today's the day to cross the canal!
We arrived in Shelter Bay Marina on Friday and were kindly greeted by our new crew member Charlie. There is not much to do here but we made the most of it! Pool party on the first day, a few boat admin days (yay!) and a Birthday! For Shelly's birthday, we made a shrine with bubbles, brownies and chocolate and went to visit a nearby fort. We also went to an observation deck to see the new locks which are mostly for big container ships.

Our timeslot through the canal has been delayed a day due to some unforeseen circumstances. So today is our day!! (hopefully)

Yesterday we went on a tour to a village with Emberra tribe residents - on the way we had a near death experience involving a bus driver who was confused about our drop off location but we eventually made it and had a very interesting tour about natural botanical remedies.

Today we are leaving this afternoon and going through the Gatun locks on the Atlantic side. We stay overnight on Gatun lake and tomorrow go through the Miraflores locks down into the Pacific!
There is a link to a satellite camera when we go through the locks tomorrow all you avid fans can watch us! http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html

Wish us luck!!