July 27th - Environment & Culture

Date: July 27th, 2015

By: Alex Barkin

Today was an amazingly exciting day filled with beauty and learning. We started with a program by our amazing coordinators, Shir and Raquel. This program allowed us to explore our memory as ourselves, our nation's, and our people. It was very thought provoking and interesting! Next we hopped on the bus and zipped over to snorkeling at the beach! This was an amazing time where we got to see all the wildlife and even coral! Sagi the JC from eilat took my camera (waterproof) and swam to the bottom to take some killer photos of us from under the sea! (Insert little mermaid song here). Once we had finished that, we had a fantastic lunch on the beach. Then we moved down the shore front to the eilat underwater aquarium!! This was so cool because we got a tour (from a canadian) of the shark tanks and then had an hour to go check out the viewing area from above or below sea level! With a couple other fellows I decided to go both above and below. Above deck was particularly special, because you could see 4 countries at once (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and of course Israel)! 

When we had finished here, we moved to the heat of the desert. A guide showed us around and explained how the dried up river bed floods every couple of years!! He then took a thorn and made it germinate to show how they survive the blazing sun. This was really cool because when the pod is ready it shoots the seeds out which popped and flew out at the fellows. Then we made music videos for a song which are really cool and when they are put together will look amazing!