Your posts about the locks and the eclipse are excellent.. Thank you again for your work in putting these posts together..Many of us no longer cruise as often as we did before, and look forward to these blogs.
As I mentioned, we are trending toward booking shorter excursions ..other than to a resort for a day of relaxation, or something like our recent trip over to NEVIS..from our ASCENT cruise.. Sal always asks how long an excursion will be before we book and prefers going early in the day !
We are okay just picking one thing or getting an overview and then have time to shop or get a late lunch .. Helps that we have been to most of the Carib ports more than once! But we always find something of interest.
Of course, the Canal excursion would be an exception to a short excursion day...since it is an engineerjng marvel that is not quite close to home...Still looking at a full transit east to west...expensive!.
When we did a partial transit on Royal C, we had a long tour leaving from Gatun Lake via tender to a small pier. We travelled by bus into the Gamboa area and made quite a few stops including an aerial tram into the jungle and climbing up stairs to an elevated viewing platform with ..amazing views . Stopped at a Butterfly conservatory and then to a resort for refreshments. Memorable day!