Colon Panama

PERIE BANOU is tied to the relatively new Shelter Bay Marina, Colon

Blog Post 18 by Jon Sanders: Shelter Bay Marina, Colon

The city of Colon Panama is on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal.

Colon remains, as with previous years, a dangerous city. But it is much cleaner and getting safer.

PERIE BANOU is tied to the relatively new Shelter Bay Marina, Colon. Good Marina, with services, some modest.

Balboa is the port for Panama City on the Pacific Ocean. The other end of the Canal.

If one looked at a map or chart of all of the Americas, (north, middle and south), and one wanted to cross the Atlantic to the Pacific one would be going east to west.

Did I get that right?

So, to go thru the Panama Canal, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, one would go west to east.

Did I get that right?

Yes. Correct!

How come?

The canal actually runs north to south, with Colon on the Atlantic side “west” of Balboa on the Pacific. Thought you needed to know that.

This will be my 7th transit of the Panama Canal

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