From the desert in the south, we drove north to Galilee. It was so nice to watch the landscape become greener and so fertile. We passed groves of citrus, olives, and date palms.
We arrived at our kibbutz/resort on the shore of the Sea of Galilee that evening. It was so beautiful and very peaceful there. The Savior spent most of his life in this area and I could feel how special The Galilee is right from the start.
This dead fish on the shore is a tilapia. They call them St. Peter's fish in Israel.
It was a bit windy and the sea was sort of choppy that first night. I could picture the Savior calming it, walking on it and teaching His disciples from its shores. I loved that we were going to stay here for two nights.
This hillside is where the Savior cast devils out of a man and they went into a herd of swine and fell off a cliff into the sea.
Mount Hermon - some people think this was where the Mount of Transfiguration was, but it wasn't.
Capernaum was the home to Peter and other apostles. Jesus lived here for eighteen to twenty months of his three-year ministry.
Jesus taught in this synagogue in Capernaum
The city is no longer inhabited.
We took a boat ride out on the Sea of Galilee.
In Tiberius we ate my favorite meal of the entire trip. It was fresh St Peter's fish (tilapia), better than any I've ever eaten. Dave's fish had a coin in its mouth.
The fam.
The "city set on a hill", that the Savior may have been referring to.
One of the highlights of Galilee had to be the Mount of Beatitudes. It was so peaceful and beautiful looking out at the Sea of Galilee. I really felt the Spirit here.
The next morning, before we left our kibbutz I just had to put my feet in the water. It was so clear you can't really even tell they are in the water.
I could have sat there for hours. Galilee is now in my heart.
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