Today's adventure was a trip through half of the canal. We started out in Gamboa and ended up in the Pacific. We learned a lot about the canal and Panama's future plans for the canal.
They are building a new canal that can accommodate larger boats. This canal will parallel the original canal. Below is a pic of some large equipment working on this new construction. They plan to have the new canal finished in 2014, 100 years after the original canal.
Here are some pix of the first
They use these vehicles on tracks to help move large ships through the locks.
This is the final locks we passed through. The birds in the air have learned that when the fresh water spills out into the salt water the fish all die and then they can just scoop them up.
This is a view of the locks as we head out into the Pacific.
This ship is used to dredge the banks in preparation for the new canal.
This is a picture of the "Bridge of the Americas". Apparently this road can take one all the way to Alaska.
