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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.1216 views
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Road.557 views
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Looooong beach ...261 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.228 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.218 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.215 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.213 views
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Enjoying the wind.209 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.208 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.208 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.207 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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City beaches are not really our thing, so we headed to the wilder variety. The road there leads through some spectacularly arid landscape.205 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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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.205 views
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Beaches of Cofete.203 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?203 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.201 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.201 views
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The city beach.201 views
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Seagulls.201 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.200 views
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And they are really scenic.199 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.198 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.198 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.197 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.197 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.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.195 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.195 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.194 views
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Patterns of the ground.192 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.191 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.190 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.185 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.183 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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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)181 views
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A Cofete house.181 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.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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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.179 views
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From the road along the peninsula.179 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.179 views
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Our Opel Corsa.178 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.178 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.177 views
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Cofete.177 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.177 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)176 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.176 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.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.168 views
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