Every year Optimist kayaking club goes to check the level of the Sea of Galilee. You can't feel truly an Israeli if you don't do that, it is the country's national sport in the winter. News will talk endlessly of the level of the sea, every little boy knows from an early age that it's been years that the level is too law and you don't take long showers because the Sea of Galilee will get dry. We also check the level, annually, but we just do it with our Kayaks.
Mind you…the Sea of Galilee is just a small fresh water lake, one of the rift valley's lakes that gives Israel much of our drinking water, but we like to call it 'SEA'. In a small dry country like ours it is sort of a wishful thinking.
So, the level is high this year due to several weekends of good rains. One in which we were suppose to paddle and had to cancel.
Mind you…the Sea of Galilee is just a small fresh water lake, one of the rift valley's lakes that gives Israel much of our drinking water, but we like to call it 'SEA'. In a small dry country like ours it is sort of a wishful thinking.
So, the level is high this year due to several weekends of good rains. One in which we were suppose to paddle and had to cancel.
We waited another week, and it was a cold and wet week and finally, headed north with our Kayaks. The weather was perfect, Friday was calm and warm and Saturday started with heavy eastern wind that made us change our plans. Instead of circling the Sea of Galilee all the way south, we rode the wind back to our vehicles on the other side of the sea. What an amazing weekend it was!!!
Sea of Galilee, Israel. February 2012
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