04/01/2008, Lemon Bay
Exploring the rivers in the Lemon Bay area is a lot of fun. Sit quietly and you will hear branches snapping as the monkeys come to take a look at you. If you are lucky the Howler Monkeys will show up and put on a display with their thunderous howling. If you're really lucky you may see a crocodile, tapir, toucan or other critters.
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03/31/2008, Punta Shelter
Shelter Bay is a small bay tucked back in at the western end of the Lemon Bay breakwater. The bay sits between the thin western peninsula of the mainland and a point extending to the south know as Shelter Point. Fort Sherman is located on Shelter Point. It was an American base (as so many things here were). It is now mostly unused although the Panama military does use it from time to time. If you hike through to the south you get to the beach on the Lemon Bay side. It will not strike you the way the Caribbean brochure does but it is a beach.
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03/30/2008, Panama
Here's an overview of what 95% of Panama looks like.
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03/29/2008, Shelter Bay
This boat will make you do a double take as it blasts through the marina. As you may notice no one is driving it.
It was one of the last things from the 007 filming to go. There is a guy sitting inside the center console that operates the boat. This allows the actors to pretend like they're driving the boat while basically ignoring the waterway and focusing on shooting guns and roundhouse kicking the bad guys into the drink.
Margaret loved this boat and I kept wondering if it was still around because she had bought it.
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03/28/2008, Sheleter Bay Marina
We have to wait 4 weeks to go through the canal.
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03/27/2008, Panama Canal
We dinghied around the Bahia Limon a bit. It is a huge bay with a lot of chop due to the large fetch and the big super tanker sized channel in the break water. It is best near the edges in a dinghy but you have to be careful because there are several reefs that crop up suddenly outside of the main thoroughfares.
We made our way up to the entrance to the Gatun Locks that take you from the Atlantic Ocean into Gatun lake.
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03/26/2008, Colon
The Panama Canal Yacht Club is the old school hang out for yachties in Colon. It is right next to the train station and close to town, but you don't really want to go to town in Colon. The yacht club is a little tired feeling and I think I would only choose it if Shelter Bay was full up. That said the food is better with a wider selection than Shelter Bay and it is much easier to get to Panama City from the PCYC. Shelter Bay is far from everything and on the other side of the locks (add 0 - 1 hour) as well.
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