Panama Excursions

[The Judge]

I have a couple of buddies from Texas visiting this week and we are doing several pretty cool trips around the countryside. The following pictures are of a three hour fishing trip we took yesterday in Gutan Lake which is part of the Panama Canal. Over the next couple of days I will post additional photos of a rainforest canopy tour that we are going on tomorrow and then on Monday, a fishing trip around Taboga Island which is off of the Pacific coast of Panama.

Early morning at the dock on Gatun Lake

Passing a freighter in the Canal

One of the first fish caught was an Oscar

Our guide caught the largest fish, a 5 lb. Peacock Bass

My buddy Pat with a nice Peacock

Feeding White Faced Monkeys

This monkey kept coming back for more

Mama monkey with her baby on her back

Our catch after less than three hours on the water

Chris with his best fish of the day



Me with mine

The view from our table at the Gamboa Resort. We were off the water with fish cleaned and sitting in the restaurant across the bridge from the boat dock by 11:00 am.


More pics to come tomorrow.

 

[spartan]

A bad day of fishing beats a good day at work :00hour
I'll tell you what though and I'm being honest I've never had a bad day of being on a boat catching fish or a dam good buzz :00hour :toast:
Love the pics judge panama looks like a good place to getaway.

 

[MadJack]

nice pic, slick!

livin' the life, livin' the life :00hour

 

[The Judge]

nice pic, slick!

livin' the life, livin' the life :00hour

What's stopping you from coming to visit?

 

[gardenweasel]

Me with mine

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your fish shows tremendous body control...looks like the fish "iron cross"....impressive..

 

[homedog]

Nice pics , Judge. I would love to fish for peacock bass.

 

[hedgehog]

nice pics, thanks for sharing

 

[The Judge]

Heading out now for a day in the rainforest near Portobello. Here are a few more pics from yesterday's outing in the Canal.

 

[Morris]

Great pics Judge!!

 

[SixFive]

nice pics. That's one gamefish (peacock bass) I want to catch someday.

 

[The Judge]

My friends and I took a drive to just beyond Portobello today to spend some time in the rainforest including a nine cable zipline run through the canopy. These pics are off of my camera and I only took a few but the other guys were clicking away all afternoon and I will get the pics off their camera when they wake up tomorrow. I think their time in Panama finally caught up with them today, LOL.

I am glad to see some of you guys are enjoying the pictures.

Coastline in Portobellow, Panama

Chagres River - the principal source of water for the Panama Canal

The view from very high atop the 1st zipline platform

Smaller river flowing 75 below the 2nd zipline platform

Same small river further downsttream

My friend Chris, coming in for a landing

A view out over the top of the rainforest canopy

Red breasted parrot in the canopy

 

[Franky Wright]

My friends and I took a drive to just beyond Portobello today to spend some time in the rainforest including a nine cable zipline run through the canopy. These pics are off of my camera and I only took a few but the other guys were clicking away all afternoon and I will get the pics off their camera when they wake up tomorrow. I think their time in Panama finally caught up with them today, LOL.

I am glad to see some of you guys are enjoying the pictures.

Coastline in Portobellow, Panama

Great stuff Judge, look forward to seeing more...

Are those the freighters lining up to go thru the canal?

Franky

 

[ga_ben]

Great stuff Judge, keep 'em coming. You are really redeeming yourself after the crap you pulled with stopping all those online poker payments.

 

[homedog]

I like that red breasted parrot.

Did you happen to run across any of those brown bellied bed thrashers down there? :shrug:

 

[kirbjones]

Nice Pics. Woulda love to Vaction there one day

 

[The Judge]

Did you happen to run across any of those brown bellied bed thrashers down there? :shrug:

One or two. ..

I'll post pics of our fishing trip around Taboga Island sometime this evening. Right now I have to herd up the visiting gringos and somehow get them to the airport early this afternoon. Considering the amount of alcohol that was consumed last night, that might prove to be quite a chore.

 

[The Judge]

Finally, the boys have headed back to the States. It was a long but fun filled week packed full of all kind of touristy stuff that I don?t regularly do so this was a nice little vacation break for me. The following pics are of our Taboga Island fishing trip on Monday. We only caught a couple of Spanish Mackerel but that was fine as the scenery was breathtaking.

Early morning view of Panama City across the bay

Low hanging cloud over small island

Rock outcropping near Taboga Island

Fortress ruins

Local fishermen

Lone fisherman

First catch of the day

Spanish Mackerel

Second catch

Watch tower

 

[The Judge]

San Pedro - the little Pueblo on Isla Taboga.

Lots of HISTORY on the island

Taboga pier

Reputed to be the 2nd oldest church in the Western Hemisphere

Taboga beach

Taking in the scenery

Taboga cave entrance

Panama City in the afternoon

Bridge of the Americas ? Gateway to the Panama Canal

 

[jer-z jock]

:toast: Fish or no fish, you are one lucky mofo Judge. Beautiful and captivating views. Being on the water catching fish is just the icing on the cake

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

What absolutely wonderful photo's Gregg--thank you.
When you have time could you give us short summary on all the plus's and any minus's of your time there so far. Have you bought property there yet or planning to?