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Location
Panana Canal
Age
17 Years

23 April 1940

Well here we are just approaching the entrance to the Panama Canal – a breakwater. All round stretching for miles along the coast are huge, unexplored, tickly wooded mountains. How impressive they looked this morning in the light of the early morning sun. There are deep blue and purple in colour and stand out clear and sharp against the sky. Never did I think I would see this!

We must anchor here awhile as there are two ships ahead of us going through the locks. As they are doing repair work only one set of locks is being used, which makes the whole business much longer. We saw a destroyer tearing along just now, I naturally thought it was American. But it was British and it stopped a dealership so as to inspect her papers. There are three ships are in car here – I know region, a Swedish and a Dutch. We have now gone through the three locks which raise us 86 feet to the height of the lakes beyond. Here we anchor again for an hour and a half. A guard of soldiers have been put on board, but most are sleeping. They took everybody’s cameras away but not so my sketchbook. Very slowly we have passed down the narrow twisting canal. It is almost dark now but one can see quite well the outline of the hills as a rise share in the water. One has to admire the courage of the man who made it. Now though three more loads to the level of the Pacific, and…..

Original Sketches & Photos