Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The rain forest of Panama

Okay now we are going into the rain forest I must say that Alex and the bus driver were excellent as they would find the animals. They had all the animal calls out that would make the animals very active. It was such an experiencto walk through this part of the rain forest.

Sloth in a tree

Falcon in the road

Monkey

Family of monkeys
Toucan


Parrot
random pictures






the little little leaves are being carried by fire ants

This was a wonderful opportunity to work on my photography skills. Owned this camera for 3 years and it was mainly used f0r sports photo's of Business students Jr. and Sr year of football

Monday, September 13, 2010

part two Panama


But first I must tell you about debarkment, Again never in my life had i encounter rude people
Now the boat was docked but it took an hour for the boat to clear customs. So here we all sat on the boat for an hour and all had excursions to catch. So instead of leaving the boat after 7:00 we all left the boat at 8:00, So all our excursions would be short changed by an hour so we thought.


Today is the the day for the tour I booked and others from the roll call joined us, We are very excited about this tour, the rain forest, canal locks and the fort on the Charges River. I booked this tour with MYFRIENDMARIO, if you have a chance to use them, Please do you wont be sorry it was an amazing tour. With no issues on getting started or getting back and his guides are very friendly and knowledgeable. We had Alex and he was great. His van was pre-stocked with refreshments and as soon as he meets the two missing passangers off we go.


We all met up with Alex and walk to a small bus, Alex then leaves us to try and find the other two people who had booked the tour, Every one in our party was accounted for and we even added 2 extra. Now going through every ones mind is that fact that are we going to experience the same kind of tour as we had the day before.








dredging new canal





Colon Panama our last port,

As a normal habit I was up early, but today is an early port day We are suppose to port at 7:00am so if I want to have my few minutes of quite I need to be up before the rest of the family. So I am ready as usual and out on my balcony, This morning it is pitch black and I will have to wait a few as sunrise is not till 6:12.









I think I should warn you this port will be photo intensive as It was everything I wanted it to be and more.