Day 6&7 continued

Today we headed toward the Panama Canal for our scheduled crossing in the late afternoon. We first anchored for a walking tour of Portobelo.  We then headed to the canal to wait our turn in line and nice through we will head to Costa Rica.  It normally takes 8-10 hours to go through all three locks and we finished about 1:30 am.  

The line up of ships waiting for their turns into the locks

The tug boats are used to controll the movement of the ships.  One to two are assigned to each ship until it enters the first lock

Because we are a small ship we are paired with another ship

First lock 

We are through number one!

We officially swam the Panama Canal by putting our feet into the ship swimming pool during the first lock crossing! We each recieved a blue bracelet commemorating the event!