Pictures from Gamboa

We spent a day at Gamboa. First stop was Pipeline Road, a hot spot for finding many of Panama’s bird species.

Although we walked along the road, which originally had something to do with the canal, the forest was relatively undamaged.

In the sunny open areas there were quite a few Blue Morpho butterflies. They are bright metallic blue and about the size of your hand.

There were many other kinds of insect, including this bug and even including some mosquitoes, the first we had encountered in Panama.

And there were many birds we hadn’t seen yet. Except for this Slaty-tailed Trogon, they were difficult to photograph. Perhaps coincidentally, it is the official bird of Parque Nacional Soberanía.