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Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5 |
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... perfect for long walks ...1691 views
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A long stretch of sand.1219 views
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Road.564 views
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Looooong beach ...268 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.248 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.233 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.232 views
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The southern tip of the island is very desolate. The road isn't paved and only few people make it this far. This is the view from the lighthouse at the very end of the peninsula back towards the island.224 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.217 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.217 views
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Enjoying the wind.214 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.213 views
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There's another lighthouse at a second tip of the peninsula, an even more desolate and windy one with views of the Cofete beach in the distance.212 views
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Beaches of Cofete.212 views
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City beaches are not really our thing, so we headed to the wilder variety. The road there leads through some spectacularly arid landscape.211 views
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Climbing the dune.210 views
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There is so much space the beach is never crowded. Well, maybe only when the World Windsurfing Championship is held here. ;)210 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.209 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.209 views
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We took a different turn and climbed to the pass that leads to the other side of the mountains, to the isolated beaches of Cofete.208 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?207 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.206 views
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Seagulls.206 views
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The city beach.205 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.205 views
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And they are really scenic.204 views
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In the afternoon we continued past Morro Jable to the south. From this lokout the city beaches can be seen.204 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.204 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.202 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.202 views
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The beach is enormous. First you have to cross a wide belt of marshes to get to the sand and the lighthouse.201 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.201 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.201 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.200 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.198 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.197 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.197 views
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Patterns of the ground.196 views
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We skipped breakfast and started at about 7 a.m., drove across the whole island and arrived at the town of Morro Jable at about 9 a.m. The place is quite touristy, but our main interest was the beach.194 views
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To help you cross a wide belt of sand to get to the sea, there's a wooden path, but it's wobbly. Very wobbly. :)191 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.190 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.189 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.188 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.188 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)188 views
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A Cofete house.187 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.186 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.186 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.186 views
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Our Opel Corsa.185 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.185 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.185 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)185 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.184 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.184 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)183 views
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From the road along the peninsula.182 views
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Cofete.182 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.181 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.178 views
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A rock in the sand.176 views
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