Flamenco Island

This guide to Flamenco Island in Panama City follows the gunners of Fort Grant, later Fort Amador, who manned coast artillery batteries built between 1920 and 1980 to guard the Pacific approach to the Panama Canal against warships that never came. It traces the causeway built from rock hauled over from the canal's own excavation, and the decades when soldiers were the only ones who reached this island. You'll hear how the emplacements still sit tucked into the hillside today. Look for them on the walk up from the marina, aimed at open water.