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... perfect for long walks ...1713 views
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A long stretch of sand.1247 views
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Road.599 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.308 views
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Looooong beach ...307 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.257 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.254 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.252 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.250 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.246 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.241 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.241 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.239 views
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Climbing the dune.237 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.236 views
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Enjoying the wind.235 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. ;)234 views
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The city beach.234 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?233 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.233 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.232 views
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And they are really scenic.232 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.232 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.232 views
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Beaches of Cofete.232 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.231 views
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Seagulls.231 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.230 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.230 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.229 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.228 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.227 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.226 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.226 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.224 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.224 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.224 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.223 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.222 views
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Patterns of the ground.221 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.221 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. :)218 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.218 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)216 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)214 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.213 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.212 views
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Our Opel Corsa.212 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.212 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.212 views
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Cofete.212 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.211 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)210 views
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A Cofete house.210 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.210 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.209 views
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From the road along the peninsula.207 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.206 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.206 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.201 views
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A rock in the sand.200 views
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