Tomorrow We Cross Continents

At 5am we wake up to “nest” up with two other boats and transit the Panama Canal. OMG, what a Life Chip.

Our group of three will be boarded by an official Panama Canal Pilot (for the central boat) and one helper for each boat. We have been carefully instructed to have 4 line handlers for the day, one for each corner. We start at 6:15. We finish at 7:30 on the other side.

All this hooha is because we are moving out boat through a literal cut of continents. Three million years ago north and south America were separate, untill the collision of these continent formed the isthmus.

After billions of dollars and thousands of lives lost to the construction of this canal by multiple governments, now we have a way through from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.

It proceeds through a series of locks that carry us into Panama and lands us on the other side and dumps us into the Pacific. My god.

We will wave at you from the Miraflores Locks as we go through. They have a webcam: www.pancanal.com/eng/photos/camera-java.html

We will post pics on the way.

See you on the other side!!