2005 Panama Canal Cruise -- Panama Canal, Pacific Side Locks
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Updated October 10, 2005

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The primary reason for this cruise, of course, was to transit the Panama Canal. Riding on a brand new, beautiful cruise ship was also an important goal. The photos here are an extensive record of our (exhausting) day, spent in the Canal. This is truly a cross-roads of the world, with many, many ships both in transit, and in port at either entrance. The engineering that made this canal is a marvel, and the setting is other-worldly. In some cases, the ships run alongside wild jungle, with no humans in sight. A website about that canal that may be of interest is: "http://www.panamacanal.com/map.htm".

Of course, we could not see or photograph a lot of our journey through the locks. We were fortunate that another ship was locking near us for some of the transit. The entire locking operation is pretty amazing, involving men and machines. This page contains the pictures we took as the Pride sailed through the last sets of locks on the Pacific side.

For us, it is one more transit of this remarkable canal, both a happy and sad time. Now, the Pride of America will travel to the Hawaiian Islands, to cruise entirely between those ports.

These pictures were taken primarily with our (no longer) new Kodak DX6490, which we love. The 10x optical zoom is great, and the electronics do a fine job of automatic adjustment and flash operations.

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