So are most things in life, nothing is straightforward. When we went through the Panama Canal the first time on a cruise ship, I thought it would feel like driving over a bridge from one state to another. NO, It was an all day affair. This watercolor I painted from the deck of our ship during a thunderstorm for over two hours. Shooting the locks & the manmade lake took all day. And the elevation changed hundreds of feet from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean sides. Surreal and beautiful