Kfar Nachum

OK, I admit, I've gone native. Totally busted. My favourite place to swim in the Kinneret is rogue. Typical of Israel, you will always find the locals congregating in the places that they're told not to be.
It doesn't hurt that this place is the closest Kinneret swim spot to Tzfat. It is about an half hour drive away. Just copy and paste this coordinate to your navigation program of choice, be it WAZE, Google maps or whatever - 32.8804, 35.5683 and you too can get there.
In the summer this is the launch pad for scores of windsurfers once the winds pick up from around 2pm. However, in the early hours it is a haven for open water swimmers. There is a buoy a few hundred yards off shore. We like to get there around 7 or 8 am to swim out to the buoy and back. There are few better ways to start the day. The visibility in the water is no more than a few feet. So to assuage my fear of sea monsters I swim with a floatie attached to a belt around my waist.
I've been to beaches all over the world. I still don't know why I keep being drawn back to this place. No soft white sand here. Just rough rocks that make you wince as you struggle to make it into the water. Perhaps it is the raw beauty. Towering hills on the east side of the Sea of Galilee seem to reach out to the sky. The water is warm and beckoning. The ancient city of Tiberias can be seen through the morning haze on the west bank. The colour of the sky blends with the colour of the sea and all I can hear is my breath and the water as I swim away further and further from shore.
It doesn't hurt that this place is the closest Kinneret swim spot to Tzfat. It is about an half hour drive away. Just copy and paste this coordinate to your navigation program of choice, be it WAZE, Google maps or whatever - 32.8804, 35.5683 and you too can get there.
In the summer this is the launch pad for scores of windsurfers once the winds pick up from around 2pm. However, in the early hours it is a haven for open water swimmers. There is a buoy a few hundred yards off shore. We like to get there around 7 or 8 am to swim out to the buoy and back. There are few better ways to start the day. The visibility in the water is no more than a few feet. So to assuage my fear of sea monsters I swim with a floatie attached to a belt around my waist.
I've been to beaches all over the world. I still don't know why I keep being drawn back to this place. No soft white sand here. Just rough rocks that make you wince as you struggle to make it into the water. Perhaps it is the raw beauty. Towering hills on the east side of the Sea of Galilee seem to reach out to the sky. The water is warm and beckoning. The ancient city of Tiberias can be seen through the morning haze on the west bank. The colour of the sky blends with the colour of the sea and all I can hear is my breath and the water as I swim away further and further from shore.