Tuesday in Panama--

took us to the Amador Causeway--a spit of land jutting out from Panama City (actually four small islands connected by a causeway made from rock taken from excavating the Panama Canal).

 

We went looking for sloths at the Punta Culebra Nature Center, a small corridor of green cut off from surrounding forest and home to, supposedly, lots of sloths.  The kids were offered a Balboa (Panamanian dollar) for each sloth they spotted. 

Luckily for all three (Gwen still had school!) each spotted a sloth.

Here's one: very furry, somewhat large, amazingly slow moving, 
huge black finger and toe nails,
extra cute black snout.

 

Enjoying the view into the Atlantic from a lookout at Punta Culebra.


 

Enjoying our selfie at the same spot! 

Then to lunch at an outdoor cafe on the Causeway where very alert grackles (or some bird) repeatedly dove in and stole french fries or even shrimp from the kids' meals.  Had to hand it to those birds for hutzpah.

On down the road to Frank Gehry's BioMuseo. 



Movie all around--ceiling, floor, walls--showing Panama's gorgeous waters, 
mountains, flora and fauna:  rain overhead, rivers beneath us.


My favorite part, though, is the room of white sculpted creatures who for centuries migrated over the Panamanian spit between North and South America. 




Huge and tiny,

Ferocious, slinky,

 

 even arboreal.

 

 Glorious lush greens in the forest murals on the walls.

 

A photo of wasps pollinating a fig.
Love the design!
Love this museum!!