The Ink Flag Memorial - Eilat Day

Written and photos by Nahum Eisenstadt

Our last stop was a short city tour and explanation of the last operation of the War on Independence in March 1949. The picture is taken at the statue commemorating the raising of the "Ink Flag" by Bren (Avraham Eden), the Negev Palmach batallion commander. In the background is one of the many adobe huts that existed when the Negev Palmach soldiers reached Um Rash Rash as Eilat was called until March 1949.

CAARI at Underwater Observatory

Written and photos by Nahum Eisenstadt

Our next stop was the world famous Underwater Observatory where we viewed the many aquariums of hard to see fish and coral, shark tank, sea turtle tank and egg laying island and the underwater tunnel that we can walk underwater and view through windows the coral, fish and animals of the Eilat coral reef and lagoon. This pictures shows CAARI viewing some of the harder to see animals that most had never seen before in special well lit tanks.

More CAARI on the Red Sea

Written and Photos by Nahum Eisenstadt

The rest of the CAARI group touring the Dolphin Reef facility home to a number Bottle-Nose dolphins that all have distinctive personalities.

CAARI spent the morning and part of the afternoon enjoying the Red Sea sun and clear air recovering from jet lag.

CAARI-ing On The Red Sea

Written and photos by Nahum Eisenstadt

Four of our 13 CAARI particpants decided to swim with the dolphins and see first hand behavior of these amazing mammals. We call these four our CAARI commando: Joel Weintraub from NY, Dolores Orlove from Chicago, Elliot Rothman and Barbara Rothman both from Toronto.

CAARI on the Red Sea

Written and Photos by Nahum Eisenstadt

The Dolphin Reef is a unique beach front on the Red Sea that does not train dolphins to behave like humans but shows humans the world of dolphins and marine life said Omer the guide at the Dolphon Reef to the CAARI Program participants in our first stop for our Red Sea Day.

Omer is the tall fellow standing in front of the movie screen in the lecture room that CAARI began the touring day. A short lecture about bottle-nose dolphins and a number of short movies showing very sophisicated behavior of dolphins drew the CAARI participants into their Red Sea visit.

CAARI 1st Touring Day on the Red Sea

Written by Florence Pape and Marilyn Gross, Photos by Nahum Eisenstadt

"Our first day of CAARI 2012 included the dolphins at The Dolphin Reef, The Underwater Observatory and a short Eilat tour, an amazing start to a wonderful trip." wrote Florence Pape and Marilyn Gross, two first time CAARI participants from Canada. Here we are the Red Sea the CAARI commandos departing from the Prima Music Eilat for the Dolphin Reef. As we were waiting for the last two people we thought to commemorate the 29th year of CAARI with this first picture.