We awoke this morning anchored off Barro Colorado Island, home of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The island was formed when the Chagres River was dammed to form Gatun Lake, which feeds water into the locks of the Panama Canal.
Linblad ships are the only ones allowed to stop here, enabling us to walk some of the trails used by the researchers. We saw a blue and yellow poison dart frog, which didn't stay around long enough for us to get a picture. The air was full of the sounds of cicadas. But they were no match for the howler monkeys. The neatest thing was seeing and hearing the monkeys.
After our hike we watched the ships coming to and from the locks while waiting for our canal pilot.
Then the canal pilot came aboard and we headed for the locks that would take us out of the lake to the Atlantic side.
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