We entered the first of the downward locks
(Pedro Miguel) at about 12:30, after a morning of motoring across the lake
and through the Gaillard cut. Some of the yachts had dawdled, not
wanting to arrive too soon for our lock time, but the time was
brought forward an hour and those boats ended having to race to catch
up. One yacht nearly missed the deadline, which would have
meant trying to make up enough long lines to be able to go through on
their own at a later time. Fortunately the advisors on the other
boats were persuaded to wait for them.
Between Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks we had to
wait some time for a tripper boat to enter the lock in front of us and we
did not get into Miraflores until 7pm UK time. Apologies to those
who tried to see us on the webcam at 5pm (the time I put in the
blog).
Here is a picture taken in the Miraflores lock over
Anastasia's bow. Ahead is another World ARC raft, with
the catamaran Ensemble in the
middle.