Our first stop after leaving Haifa Wednesday morning was Rosh Hanikra. I remembered a beautiful scene where an Israeli border guard returned a little Lebanese toddler from my trip to Rosh Hanikra in 1969. Little did I know that the border had become a closed Barbed Wire affair in 1984. It was not the same. Now our visit would be reserved for iced coffee shlushees and a visit to the Grotto.

      We took the Cable Car down to the grotto way below the cliff at the border. I was very proud of Laurie with her Acrophobia on the Cable Car. We marvelled at the chalk cliffs and the sea on the way down to the grottoes. The grottoes are a group of tunnels eaten into the chalk cliff by sea.

      At the bottom we walked down the many intertwined caves. Many were created by the sea, but some were created by the British. There was a movie describing both the natural and human creation of the Grottoes. The British had built a railroad through the grottoes to bring in arms during the World Wars. The railroad is now closed. After the movie and another shlushee we headed along the Lebanese border toward the Gallilee and Gonen.