Things to see from the water

The world definitely looks different from the water.  If you spend your life on the water, these pictures are not any big deal.  If you spend most of your life shoreside, they can be fascinating.  I spend enough time ashore to think their cool to look at and imagine.

These big ships are identical but we couldn't figure out what they were built to do.

Panama City is on a deep bay with a wide opening to the Gulf of Mexico.  They are constantly trying to attract shipping business, especially from the Panama Canal Zone, hence the name of the city.

This is a Catalina 25.  Our first monohull was this same model.  We called it our 4-door family boat since it was a huge change for our Hobie 18.  We would take us and the three girls for weekend cruises.  It was a great platform to learn how to cruise.

One of the big boats headed to the gulf.

The great white hunter.

All these containers full of stuff going somewhere.  Every cruising sailor's nightmare is to run into a container that has fallen off in the middle of the night.  They aren't lit and they don't show up well on radar.

This paper mill has huge piles of pulp waiting to be processed.  Looks like sand dunes from a distance.

There is a test center for new engine development in Panama City.  You might think it's an exciting job to jet up and down the waterway but I bet it gets monotonous after a while.