More on the Negev trip, including snorkeling at the Red Sea, visiting the animal preserve Hai-Bar, and tasting salt walls near the Dead Sea. Ariel, our Jewish Thought teacher, has been going on all the trips this semester.  Here he gets the salt water out of his mouth! Here's Jake and two of his lovely ladies (Julie and Anna).   Amy M. and Brian T. head out over the dock to take a look at these cool fish. Kasey doesn't look quite sure what she's supposed to do.  "Put this pipe-thing where?"   The mushroom at Timna provided a challenge.  Pretty hard to jump on top of though. This is the border of Egypt.  Never mind the girls.   Doesn't look like much of a story here.  But there is one.  This is where the Israelites "wandered" for 40 years.  We sat out in the barren wasteland for not quite 40 minutes. Charissa and Wendy enjoy each other's company at one of the Negev stops.  Wendy is not smoking; that's just a straw she's chewing on.   Hai-Bar is an animal preserve designed to reintroduce nearly extinct animals back into the land of Israel.  This creature posed for his picture. The vulture doesn't seem so endangered, judging from the numbers we've seen following us on our hikes.  Who knows.   So we just stop the bus on the side of the road next to the Dead Sea and Kim and Amy go up and start licking the wall.  So it's a sheet of salt; I wouldn't do it. We found it.  Cave 1 - the first cave where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.  Everyone was excited.  Too bad we didn't find it 60 years earlier.   The Negev trip was our last trip for "The Land and the Bible" class - the main field trip course.  So we had to get a group shot on the bus. In the front of the bus, Yoel drove and Todd taught.  Parents, do you trust your kids to these two?  (Too late now :-))