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| On the passage from the San Blas Islands to the start of the Panama Canal we stayed overnight at Isla Linton and interacted with the Spider Monkeys who are the only inhabitants of the island |
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| We gave this monkey a banana, as you do, but were cautious as we heard that they can get a bit upset when you leave and start to demand more food! |
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| After rudely tossing our banana away we threw it back to him and he peeled and ate it... |
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| These Spider Monkeys were as tall as Kara and very human-like |
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| Jol (Travis' guitar teacher from Christmas Island) joined us a few days later and the boys got right into the music |
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| It was time to head for the Rio Chagres to wait for our Panama Canal transit. This is the river that was dammed to make the canal 100 years ago. It is a virgin rainforest - and an awesome place to anchor and explore the wildlife |
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| We saw a variety of birds, the eyes of a Caiman crocodile at night, and our favourite - a sloth in a nearby tree. We watched it for 2 days and got excited every time it moved! |
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| Our resident sloth! Jol's idea to take it with the iPhone through the binoculars! |
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| A Toucan... |
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| Beau rowing up a tributary on a quiet nature watching expedition... |
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| Travis, always ready with a fishing line |
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| A family of Howler Monkeys - made a racket every morning and evening |
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| A sneak preview of the canal - this is the Dam wall with a ship in the Gatun Lake heading for the locks. We were anchored a few hundred meters away in Pristine rainforest - hard to imagine we were so close to the locks |
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| At the mouth of the Chagres River is this 16th Century Spanish fort taken over by Captain Morgan of the rum fame - but he lost 4 ships on the reef at the entrance. Nothing like having a GPS and Chart Plotter! |
