With three days to wait before transiting the Canal, we chose to leave the Colon anchorage near Club Nautico as it is a busy place with all kinds of vessels making too many waves !!!

Instead, we choose to sail to the Rio Chagres: its mouth is only 6 km from Colon and a nice sail with the wind at our back brings us there in no time! 

The Rio Chagres is a river that played an essential role at the time of explorations by Europeans: all the gold, the jewels and the goods were transported on the Rio Chagres, which is after all the only river in the world that empties into two oceans! The tales of the expeditions along the Chagres river are amazing! We were so lucky to have the time and means to explore the river!