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... perfect for long walks ...1715 views
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A long stretch of sand.1248 views
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Road.602 views
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Looooong beach ...311 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.311 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.260 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.258 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.256 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.253 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.250 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.245 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.244 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.240 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.240 views
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Climbing the dune.239 views
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Enjoying the wind.238 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.238 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. ;)237 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?237 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.236 views
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The city beach.236 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.235 views
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And they are really scenic.235 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.235 views
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Beaches of Cofete.235 views
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Seagulls.234 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.233 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.233 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.233 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.231 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.231 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.231 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.230 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.229 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.228 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.227 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.227 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.227 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.225 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.224 views
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Patterns of the ground.224 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. :)221 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.221 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)219 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)218 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.216 views
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Our Opel Corsa.215 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.215 views
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Cofete.215 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.214 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.214 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.214 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.213 views
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A Cofete house.213 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.213 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)212 views
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From the road along the peninsula.211 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.210 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.210 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.205 views
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A rock in the sand.204 views
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