Pictures of 04.01.00 -- The Carmel Mountains -- An April Fool's Day Trip

It was a beautiful Saturday and we went exploring in various corners of the Carmel with the Tal family. First we went to the Druze village of Isfiya for lunch. Before we ate, everyone was hungry ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010009 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010010 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010011 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010012 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010013 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010014 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010015 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010016 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010017 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010018 The camera's batteries gave out of these pictures, so we had to go on to Daliyat el Carmel where this woman ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010019 was nice enough to sell us batteries for 25 shekels so that we could resume our journey ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010020 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010021 and take the obligatory phone booth picture ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010022 Suzanne and Yossi made the necessary pit stop ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010023 so that we could stop staring at the statue ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010024 and buy some T shirts ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010025 in stores like this one ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010026
Our next stop was at Muhraka, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010027 where Elijah ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010028 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010059 had his famous encounter with the 450 priests of Baal. ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010065 From the top of the church, you could see almost everywhere ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010055 as our photo orgy shows ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010029 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010030 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010031 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010032 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010033 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010034 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010035 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010036 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010037 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010038 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010039 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010040 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010041 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010042 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010043 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010044 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010045 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010046 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010047 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010048 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010049 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010050 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010051 including one where the careful viewer can see the smokestacks of the factory in Hadera.
Eventually we got back to taking people pictures ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010052 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010053 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010054 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010056 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010057 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010058 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010060 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010061 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010062 By this time we were all feeling a little tired ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010063 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010064 so we took the necessary wild flower pictures ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010066 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010067 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010068 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010069 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010070 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010071
For our final stop, we went to En Hod ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010080 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010081 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010082 There were many road signs here that we had ben meaning to capture on film for quite a while ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010072 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010077 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010079 Then we found some art to sit on ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010073 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010074 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010075 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010076 By now, it was quite late ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.01.00TheCarmelMountains//P4010078 so we decided to call it a day and fight the traffic back to Herzalia.