 Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5
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... perfect for long walks ...2244 views
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A long stretch of sand.1860 views
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Road.1135 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.1056 views
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Looooong beach ...1011 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.887 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.881 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.874 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.858 views
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A Cofete house.853 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.851 views
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Patterns of the ground.848 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.845 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. ;)845 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.837 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.831 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.831 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)830 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.826 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.824 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)823 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.819 views
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Enjoying the wind.817 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.816 views
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And they are really scenic.807 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.803 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.803 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.802 views
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Our Opel Corsa.798 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.792 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.790 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.786 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.786 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. :)785 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.783 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.781 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.780 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.777 views
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Climbing the dune.777 views
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Seagulls.777 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.776 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.772 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.770 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.767 views
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Beaches of Cofete.765 views
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From the road along the peninsula.764 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.761 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.761 views
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The city beach.758 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.755 views
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A rock in the sand.755 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.751 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.749 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.742 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.740 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.736 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?735 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.733 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.727 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)725 views
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Cofete.716 views
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