In January of 2009 we travelled to Central America.  Part of the trip has a day light transit through the Panama Canal.  This was our second time through the canal and I think it was even more exciting this time because we were on a smaller ship, so the experience was much more personal. 

I think the above video of the transit offers some unique views of the locks and and the progress through them.  I used a timelapse camera to take a picture every 10 seconds, then speeded up the action by about 60 times.  This will allow you to see things going on that seemed to take forever in real time.  For example, watch the water: in real time you really couldn’t see it go up or down in the locks, but it the timelapse, it is dramatic.  I mixed some real time video in with the timelapse so you can see some of the events and sounds.

The trip was part of the Zegrahm Expedition’s Rainforests and Reefs trip.  Included some fascinating visits to Mayan ruins and visits to current day Panamanian indians, along with many other things.  We will post some more pictures eventually.