Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning
- Day's Itinerary
- Nazareth (10:01 am)
- Nazareth Village (11:55 am)
- Megiddo (12:26 pm)
- Caesarea by the Sea(15:05 pm)
Our travel of the day - starting at the En Gev Kubbutz and ending at Caesarea
To our place
Early morning moon at the Kibbutz
Our home seen from the Sea of Galilee
Early morning wavelets on the Sea of Galilee
The kibbutz housing
We found this red wine at the local shop and its reqlly quite good - from the Golan Heights
Off to Nazareth - and some olive harvesting in progress
- Place: Nazareth Museum at Village of Nazareth
- Observation: Congested and busy town, simulation of Jesus’ neighbourhood-simple & humble lifestyle of Jesus
- Teaching 4; Bible ref: Luke 2: 39-52
- Principle 4: Jesus the Son of God demonstrates humility through his humble beginning as a child
Nazareth traffic
Sign of death
Waiting
Nazareth Village
Walking to the back property to view the village
A sort of shepherd
Where wine was made. The juice from the graphs migrated from one region to another - sort of like a staged waterfall.
The engine of a grain mill
What I call grain smashers - hammer-like things that crush the grain
A carpenter shop
The weaving area
An oil lamp
- Place: Tel Megiddo (Armageddon)
- Observation: Western age of the huge valley of Jezreel-future place for all nations gathering to fight Israel. Subterranean water system. Archaeologists uncovered more than 20 layers of occupation
- Teaching 5: Revelation 16:10-16; 19:11-21
- Principle 5: God will judge all nations at His appointed time
This guy, flaps down, trying to land
To Megiddo
The Megiddo Story
Steps
City site
more
This plane was flying about apparently dusting crops - some acrobatics
Turning around (up, over and back)
Flying low over the agriculture area
Banking
Stephen Teaching
Water system
Walking down to the tunnel
And further down - until we escape and leave for Caesarea
- Place: Caesarea by the Sea
- Observation: Beautiful sea front and sun set view. Named in honour of Roman emperor Augustine. Showpiece of Roman culture with large theatre surrounds cut out of natural environment. It was a place for Roman entertainment (e.g. chariot race). Many events took place of which the most prominent was Peter shared the gospel with Cornelius, a Roman Centurion and gentile convert
- Teaching 6: Bible ref: Acts 10:1-22
- Principle 6: All believers are commanded to make disciples of Jesus Christ
About the statues
Describing the theater
Entrance
Stephen Teaching
I think this is a tomb
Theater
Birds flying in formation
Us - standing by a column
Us again
It is so quiet here - with seagulls flying about
Contemporary chariots
Roman arches
Waiting for sunset
Looking toward the sea
Columns
More columns
Mosaic
Mosaic - thought to be in the kids playroom
Bridal smiles
Bridal bliss
Bridal anxiety
Sunset
Sunset - later
Last sunset
Overview of part of the site
Ellen
Leaving
Old structure
Home and the Tiberias lights
A longer exposure showing the nearby trees, water and chairs
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C. Frank Starmer