AIS map showing an amazing amount of boat traffic in the canal...as expected!

 There was a lot of light entering the locks...one large ship and a tug ..as for us, we had to tie up to a large trimaran! Not an easy task in the dark, blended by lights. Our pilot, Ricky, was very relax but the trimaran pilot was a nervous type...anyhow, Heiner and Stephen (our fourth line handler) manage to untie ropes, and got rapidly familiar with the routine.While Heiner has done a lot of locks, this was different: the lines were thrown from a very high with a monkey fist wall by two canal employees: the line handlers had to tie our lines to it so the employes could retrieve them and attach them to the posts.  Our boats were so to say floating between the lock walls while the water was coming up at quite a speed!

 It was about 23h30 when we got to our anchorage at Lake Gatun...well, rather than anchoring, we tied up to a very large buoy together with the trimaran. After a very late supper (!), all went to bed! Next morning, the pilot was scheduled for 6am...