Panama 2005

In August, Robert and I embarked on a birding/nature trip to Panama with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours.  Our destination was the Canopy Tower, a former US Air Force radar tower facility on Semaphore Hill overlooking the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, later used by the DEA before being abandoned in the 1995.  Remodeled and turned into an eco-lodge, the four-story structure provides visitors a bird's-eye view into the surrounding canopy and was the perfect base from which to explore the surrounding area.  Following are some of our photos.  (Click on the photos for a larger version.)

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The Canopy Tower

Interior - first floor	Our room...	We didn't actually use the mosquito nets...	Top floor - library/sitting room...
...and dining room	View from the sitting room	Stairs up to the observation deck	Breakfast up top
Sunrise	Bridge of the Americas (over the Canal)	Birding from the top deck	Birding the entrance road
A forlorn bench	A mossy wall	CT's "birdmobile"	Liza on the birdmobile
We had a hammock on the balcony...	...and in the room as well.	Robert on our balcony	Another morning up top
	Liza after a long day birding