CARTAGENA - Day 100 - 1 sea day and an early arrival to Cartagena. Sitting on the north coast of Colombia with a population close to a million. Near the equator with an average temperature of 82 and high humidity (85% today). Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. 95% of the world's emeralds come from Colombia.
We were in port for a very short time and as we will be back in January didn't do a tour. We walked around the terminal where they have pink flamingos, brightly colored parrots, peacocks freely running around the grounds and a variety of other birds in cages. There were also small monkeys in the trees.
We left port by 1 pm to get in the cue for the transit of the Panama Canal early Saturday morning.
PANAMA CANAL - It was an early morning. We picked up the first of 2 pilots and a person who described the transit by 6 am. We were through the Gaton locks by 8:30 and anchored for at least an hour. I know most of you have either done the Panama Canal or been subjected to videos taken by relatives or friends so I'm not going to bore you with descriptions.
There are about 35 ships that use that Canal each day at a cost of over $100,000 each. The new locks are not yet open but they have an inauguration of them planned for June 16th of this year.
Pictures - 1 - coastline of the new city (Cartagena ), 2 - parrots at the terminal, 3 - Coral Princess following us through one of the locks
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