Trip to the Devil's Beach

One weekend, we set off in our car to check another beach on the Caribbean side of Panama, to see if it would suit our purposes.

To get to it, we had to drive the only road from us to the Caribbean side; the freeway to Colón. This time, we actually had to cross the Panama Canal in order to get to the other side. At the time we hit Gatun Locks,

There were already a couple of ships waiting to pass, so we had no other choice, but to wait.

Finally it was our turn to drive through the locks. 

Once we passed through them, we continued on a decent road through the jungle,

 until we hit what we took as a National Park. The attendants said Playa Diablo, where we were going was closed, but we saw a few cars parked in front of its gates, so we decided to chance it.

The car was hot, so as soon as Kaleb was released, he headed for the waves. I wasn't too excited about the wave action; having had enough of being in the washing machine of Nicaragua's waves, so I just let Kaleb get himself wet.

Chuck really liked the beach, but I wasn't as happy with it, because of the waves (swimming would be difficult) and its proximity to the Canal, and its high traffic.

On out way home, we passed through an former US military base, Fort Sherman. 

Nice views for army barracks.

There were also some hotels and restaurants built on the side of the Canal, but we decided to head home.