One of several different Israeli Navy ships which checked us out upon entering Israeli waters.

The River Jordan where Jesus was baptized. Steve and Lee decide to share an ice cream.

Wall tiles in every language told the story. Here it is in English and ...

Here it is in Hawaiian.

A t-shirt with all the local "Seas" represented.

We took a took of the Golan Heights and this is looking down on the Sea of Galilee. It was very enlightening to visit all of the places you constantly hear in the news and see what these areas really look like.

The church on the Mount where Jesus gave the sermon.

Inside the fort at Akko, a World Heritage Site and it is a famous harbor from ancient times. Salidan captured the city in 1187 only to lose it to Richard the Lionheart in the Crusades. Napoleon Bonaparte failed to take the city in 1799 and was one of his few defeats during this period.