Rio Chagres
30 May 2011 | Rio Charges, Panama
Steve
Photo.. Time for yet another Canadian Flag..”Diva” following us into the River with Fort San Lorenzo in the background.
The Rio Charges is surrounded by virgin rainforest. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has an active laboratory here, you can see their 160 foot crane from the river . They use it to get assess to the forests canopy. This is a RAIN forest so we shouldn't have been surprised when we received 5.8 inches of rain in a 2 1/2 hour period. There was so much water we had both 100 gallon water tanks filled within minutes and the scuppers couldn’t handle the flow so the water was poring over the sides. Most of the time the weather was quite pleasant although there is little wind in the river and it is tropics so we shouldn’t have been surprised that it was hot (we weren’t ).