Please see my posts. I lived there, at Fort Clayton for almost 4 years. I know every fishing hole. The only tourist places I didn’t go were diving in San Blas, the Mosquito Coast, and Tropic Star Lodge. Places you had to fly in.
http://www.chagres.com/
Maybe 20 years ago (1999) I found the site and signed the guest book recounting my experience in the army while there between '69 and '72.
A number of years later (maybe 2004), I got an email from a guy who read my message and as it turned out, it was one of my buddies who I briefly shared an apartment with in Panama City after I arrived and was stationed on Flamenco Island with the 252nd Signal Company.
I was only there for about 5 months before being transferred to Ft. Clayton. I never saw my buddy again.
We corresponded on and off for several years via email. Finally after a two year absence of he not responding to me, I finally searched for him on the internet and discovered he had passed away from cancer about 5 months after our last correspondence.