Sea Urchin in Colon, Panama SYS044
Bob holding a Sea Urchin from the bay in the background.
Here is my friend from New York called Bob Margavich and this is when we were in Panama, Central America. We ended up at an old military base from World War II. It was used as a seaplane base during the war. We ended up in Colon, Panama because of a so-called uprising against the military base. After a few days, we found out that a dependent had climbed a flagpole and tore down the American flag.
The end results is that we stayed there for a few weeks babysitting the military base until things calmed down. Most of the time we spent near this area where a boat would come in daily with mail and assorted supplies from the ships that we were on. The building in the back was the local watering hole and after talking with the bartender in there, we found out that there was only about twelve people assigned to the base.
The bartender also told us that there were a few scientists that were staying there on a daily basis but traveling back and forth to Colombia. Many years later, I was reading my oldest boy's school books who was studying genetics and outbreaks that a team of sceintists were working out out of a military base and traveling to a Ebola breakout in Colombia. It's a small wolrd out there.
Sharing a few memories, Enjoy,
Marty Dougherty