Last sunday we visit one of the less known panamenian national parks, the Camino de Cruces National Park. Usually nobody realizes that the main buildings and visitors center of the park are close to the Centennial Bridge, in route to western Panama, or to Gamboa as in our case. It was a very quick and early visit, around 7:30 am. 
A nice, but sleepy women attend us because the park rangers were in their daily duties. She told us that she only knew about one trail, the Capricornio trail (funny name for a forest trail), but last night's blizzard ripped out some trees, making it difficult to walk.
Anyway, we tried. It was wide and passable only by a few meters, crossing a little creek to a tall secondary forest, where we heard little activity. After hearing a Cocoa Woodcreeper and a Blue-and-black Grosbeak, we returned to the parking lot in order to continue in our way to Gamboa. This park used to be my counting area during the Christmas Bird Counts many years ago. Back then we entered the park through the Chiva Chiva's road, near the Miraflores locks. This road still exists, but now there are some safety issues that make me think on it twice before doing any birding again in that road. I hope to visit this park again someday. For sure there are more trails and the forest seems to be good.
A nice, but sleepy women attend us because the park rangers were in their daily duties. She told us that she only knew about one trail, the Capricornio trail (funny name for a forest trail), but last night's blizzard ripped out some trees, making it difficult to walk.Anyway, we tried. It was wide and passable only by a few meters, crossing a little creek to a tall secondary forest, where we heard little activity. After hearing a Cocoa Woodcreeper and a Blue-and-black Grosbeak, we returned to the parking lot in order to continue in our way to Gamboa. This park used to be my counting area during the Christmas Bird Counts many years ago. Back then we entered the park through the Chiva Chiva's road, near the Miraflores locks. This road still exists, but now there are some safety issues that make me think on it twice before doing any birding again in that road. I hope to visit this park again someday. For sure there are more trails and the forest seems to be good.
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