We left Bocas last Monday, stopping at Crawl Key, Bluefields, and Escudo Veraguas.  Rock outcroppings and caves run along the north side of Escudo.

From Escudo we had a twenty-hour trip to the Rio Chagras, part of the canal watershed.  Here's Nilaya leaving the island.  

Rain, our crew, going up the Chagras.

When we left the river, we crossed the Panama Canal near Colon.  Here's a faster boat cutting across our path (or his, actually).  We came about hard.

Now we're in the lovely town of Portobelo, where some boats bring their own cocktail waiter.