A tiyul to the Hexagon Pool

I had a 5-hour break in the middle of the day today, so we decided to take a little tiyul to the Hexagon Pool, a place in the Golan where we had not been before. Here are some pictures that I took on this trip, with a few comments after each.
We drove a bit in the Golan before getting to the entrance to the nature reserve where the Hexagon Pool is located. Here's a bizarre sight that we saw along the way. Isn't is a little dangerous to graze cattle in a mine field!????

Here's a view of the Hexagon Pool itself, looking toward the point where the stream flows into it. It got its name of the hexagonal (6-sided) rock pillars that you can see a little in this picture on the right side.

Here's a view of the pool from above at a spot just to the right of the stream entrance.

Here's a view showing the cliff, which is like a "curtain" of hexagonally shaped rock pillars.

Here's an interesting plant (perhaps a relative of the Nile lilly?), shot from above with the pool and the cliff in the background.

I also saw quite a number of other beautiful flowers. I think these pretty white flowers with gold centers are probably daffodils.

This is a very zoomed close-up of a delicate little purple flower. Perhaps it's a cyclamen. It's really much tinier than this large picture makes it seem!

This is a close-up of a beautiful yellow flower. It actually grows on a fairly large round bush with many others like it covering much of the plant.

Here's another pair of delicate small flowers. I don't know what these are, but I think they're very lovely. Notice the leaf on their plant, as well!

Just before we got back from our little hike (one parks at the top and walks down a trail about a mile into the canyon to get to the pool), a few drops began to fall. Not long after we started driving home, the drops became steady rain, so we made it back just in time.

Right before we turned onto the main road, an olive green UPS truck drove by! The contrasts here in Israel can be quite wonderful. We followed the truck all the way down to near the Kinneret (the "Sea of Galilee"), across the Jordan River, and up the road on the other side, at which point I passed him.

We had brought a lunch with us, but we were a little concerned about the time since I had a student scheduled at 4:00, so we didn't eat it until we got back home. However, on the way up to Tsfat, I got a call from the Berlitz office that my student had canceled. Since this was a late cancellation, I will still get paid. When we got home, it was still raining here, so we just ate our lunch in the car, and, by the time we finished, the rain had stopped!