Monday is Panama Canal Day

We have just found out you can watch us LIVE passing through the Gatun Locks in the canal.  Our first pass is from 7-9:00 AM EST.  We will return through the same locks between 12:00 noon and 2:00.  There is a live webcam streaming 24 hours from the canal.  Watch for the Zuiderdam on the live webcam           www.pancanal.com

Lydia and Jerry are taking a shore excursion through all three locks and will reach the Pacific and return to the Zuiderdam in time for departure.  Joyce and Bob are staying on the ship and will go through Gatun Lock, the first and only one the big ship goes through this trip.  Just traveling through one of three locks, our ship Zuiderdam will have to pay a toll of $345,000. Even going through the two other locks wouldn't  have increased the toll amount. That amounts to $179 per passenger, which I am sure we have all paid. ( one way or the other )

  We are lined up here heading into the canal. You can see the two water levels on the left hand side of the photo. There are actually 3 chambers in this lock.

  This is a tanker beside us in the other lane of the canal.  The dark at the left of the photo is one half of the lock gate, waiting to close.

                   

                This is the tanker that was beside us in the canal channel.