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Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5 |
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... perfect for long walks ...1685 views
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A long stretch of sand.1211 views
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Road.553 views
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Looooong beach ...255 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.235 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.224 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.222 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.214 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.211 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.208 views
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Enjoying the wind.205 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.204 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.203 views
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Climbing the dune.202 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.202 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.201 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. ;)201 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.200 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.199 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?199 views
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Beaches of Cofete.198 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.197 views
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The city beach.197 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.195 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.195 views
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Seagulls.195 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.193 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.193 views
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And they are really scenic.192 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.192 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.192 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.191 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.191 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.190 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.189 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.188 views
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Patterns of the ground.186 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.186 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.185 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. :)182 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.178 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.176 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.176 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.176 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.175 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)175 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.175 views
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A Cofete house.175 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.174 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)174 views
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Our Opel Corsa.173 views
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From the road along the peninsula.173 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.173 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.173 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.173 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.172 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.171 views
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Cofete.171 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)169 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.169 views
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A rock in the sand.164 views
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