Something Different 34

Tribute to all things cat?  This one is teamed up with an APE?

 

Yes, Vespa’s APE.

For streets like these in the Viejo Casco, smaller vehicles are just right, but

walking is better.

La Iglesia de la Merced (church of mercy) had a cool atmosphere on a 90-degree afternoon, and when the organist began to play, I could have stayed much longer . . .  1038 pipes!

This was low tide and sea walls look formidable.

Here I turned to the left, looking beyond the “coastal beltway” from the Casco Viejo out toward the causeway, built on 1914 Canal spoils, beyond which is the shipping channel,  where a CMA CGM vessel heads into the Pacific.

On the wall of a marina building in what used to be a US military base, there was graffiti of sorts, a way to communicate,  reminding me of the mail drop on Floriana many miles to the SW.

Indulge me .. one more boat;  Gamboa Express was once Dutch fishing trawler Deo Volente UK-43.  The UK here, I presume, refers to the port of Urk, where I had a strong drink with a relative many years ago in a bar, in a no longer plumb building that dated from ?? the 1400s.   Read the comments on how Gamboa Express came to Panama here.

And let’s end it here with murals of the original canal construction in the administration building, now used by the ACP.  The artist was William Van Ingen,  from Philadelphia.  He was paid by the square foot, so as you might imagine, they are colossal.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who loved Panama and hopes to go back.

Happy Easter and Passover.