Images Of Transiting The Panama Canal

Photographic impressions from our travels…


If you like cruising do not pass up an opportunity to transit the Panama Canal. It is one of life’s truly remarkable experiences.

An electric “mule”

One of the modern era’s greatest engineering accomplishments is the digging and construction of the Panama Canal.

Fog on Lake Gaton

One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, avoiding thousands of miles of travel and the hazardous Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan. The United States took on the project in 1904 and opened the canal on August 15, 1914.

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