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Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5 |
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... perfect for long walks ...1689 views
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A long stretch of sand.1217 views
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Road.559 views
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Looooong beach ...264 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.242 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.229 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.227 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.219 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.216 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.215 views
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Enjoying the wind.210 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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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.208 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.207 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.206 views
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Climbing the dune.206 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. ;)206 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.206 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.205 views
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Beaches of Cofete.205 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?205 views
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Seagulls.203 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.202 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.201 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.201 views
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The city beach.201 views
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And they are really scenic.200 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.199 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.199 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.199 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.198 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.198 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.197 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.196 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.196 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.195 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.194 views
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Patterns of the ground.192 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.191 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. :)188 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.187 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.184 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.183 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.183 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.182 views
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A Cofete house.182 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)181 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.181 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.181 views
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From the road along the peninsula.180 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.180 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)180 views
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Our Opel Corsa.179 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.179 views
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Cofete.179 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.178 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.177 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.177 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)176 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.175 views
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A rock in the sand.170 views
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