A New Photo from Sdot Yam

I found this photo on the web of the dining hall at Sdot Yam on a Facebook Group.

It hasn't changed an iota since I was there. I swear that that big cactus plant near the center is the exact same one as was there in 1978.

This the the angle I would approach it every day for lunch-break. The carpentry factory at which I worked was not too far, near the north-eastern end of the kibbutz. We'd have to walk past the dairy ... then the tile factory. After turning left just before the tile factory we would see the dining hall just like this. We would enter through a set of doors under the raised room to the right. The raised room itself the the dining hall. Many's the day I would sit at a table next to those windows. We would also have dinner and breakfast here, unless we opted to bring some food to our rooms ... which was rare.

I can still feel the heat ... and the sound and smell of the ocean. The Mediterranean was just a few yards beyond the dining hall, to the right of this photo.

I can't say I remember the basketball hoop, though.