This
is a good photo taken in the Gatun River valley area. It shows
fill already being dumped off the trestle in the distance. This
will be only a causeway through the Gatun Lake soon. The
photographer is standing on a hill that will become a
island.
Now you can see where all those stumps in the lake came from. The
jungle was not cleared when the lake was flooded but left to
eventually decompose. The larger trees are still there under
water. There is a company in Panama today that is harvesting some
of the big hardwood trees out of the lake. The wood has been
preserved all these years underwater. |