After admiring one of the world’s greatest engineering wonders, we venture to discovering the Panama Bay Islets, the wind that constantly blow through the canal gap causes an upwelling that promotes abundance in the oceans. The sea birds take advantage of this condition and the mammal free islands to use as nesting sites; this is one of the places in the tropics that you can see thousands and thousands of sea birds gathering on the rocks, easy to see and photograph.
- Daily Expedition Reports
- 02 Jan 2017
Panama Bay Islets, 1/2/2017, National Geographic Sea Lion
- Aboard the National Geographic Sea Lion
- Costa Rica, Panama & Colombia
Cristian Moreno, Undersea Specialist
Cristian is a Panamanian born in Chile. He grew up in Panama City until the age of 19 when he returned to Chile to go to college where he received a degree in metallurgic civil engineering. Since 1995 he has been working as a freelance naturalist in ...
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