Sea of Galilee to Mediterranean Sea

We started our day packing up our place in Tzfat, which is a story in itself, which I’ll let Chris tell; then drove to Ginnosar (which has the claim of ‘The World’s Best Fruit” according to our boat captain today.)  We got on a boat like “The Jesus Boat” built to be the same size and roughly shape of the boats in Jesus’ day.  Our captain, David and his brother Joey built the boat out of… get this… North Carolina Pine! (and some ceder and something else i don’t remember)

What a cool experience… It was just the four of us and our captain and his one crew member.

We motored out in this electric boat (very low noise) and anchored.  We all jumped in and had a lovely swim.

David threw an authentic cast net from the same time period (made of wool) and then showed Chris how… we caught no fish… maybe we should have cast the net on the other side. 🙂

Chris tipped our captain with a silver coin he brought from home & it turns out David is not only a musician, but a coin collector as well – (God knew that!)…he was really blessed.  We got to see from the Sea: the Golan heights, Capernaum, & the other places we visited in that area yesterday along with Mt. Arbel, and the Valley of Doves that Jesus would have traveled from Nazareth to Galilee.

We then drove to the most North West corner of Israel  to see Rosh HaNikra.  Our first glimpse of the Mediterranean was on the road up there and – WOW!  Beautiful & blue… Emma wanted to pull the car over right then to go take a swim.  (We didn’t.)

Here’s the view from the top:

I thought we were going to have more time to explore at Rosh HaNikra, but it turns out it’s not really designed that way – we stood in line for a long time to get on a cable car to the bottom to see the grottos (pictured below).

The cable car is the steepest in the world – another cool little fact.

After seeing what there was to see in the caves, we got back in the car for a 45 minute drive to Haifa.  Sundown marked the beginning of Shabbot, which closes down many businesses, but we found a grocery store & gas station that were open.  We checked into our next apartment where we’ll be for 2 nights.

Grocery store olive selection… and you should have seen the cheese!:)

We were so excited to find we have a washing machine here which at this point is much needed.

Chris & I took a walk from the apartment to the beach which is about 2 blocks away and got some gelato (passion fruit, lemon, & mango), sat on a rock watching the waves crash and had a brief “date” while the girls were safely tucked into the apartment on their devices.

 

Beach in the morning & depending on Sabbath closings, we may venture out & tour around inland some more.

Thanks for reading along with us… it’s good to know you all are there praying for us!