Some long due news

It's been a while... We've been quite busy all weekends of July learning scuba diving in the ancient Roman harbor of Caesarea. After about 7 days of diving we completed our PADI open water and advanced open water diver courses. We can now go dive down to 30m by ourselves and we intend to take advantage of it :). We unfortunately had mostly low visibility and agitated waters but we were still able to enjoy some of the remains of Herod's sunken harbor.

Last weekend we drove north to Yehiam fortress and enjoyed a quiet afternoon there overlooking Western Galilee. For once the sky was quite covered and it wasn't too hot. The fortress is located in a Kibbutz, and was used by the kibbutzim as a stronghold during the independence war, and some of their additional fortifications are still up. The rest of the castle was build by the ottomans on top of the ruins of a crusader castle.

On saturday we went for a hike in the Carmel national park, but as we got up late it was a bit too hot and we were too low on water to hike for long so we just climbed on top of a small hill and cliff, enjoyed the view and drove back to Haifa to finish the day playing with waves on the beach.


I also started to take advantage of a new macro lens to take closeup of flowers or lizards as you can see here: