 Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5
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... perfect for long walks ...2149 views
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A long stretch of sand.1762 views
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Road.1057 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.936 views
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Looooong beach ...904 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.805 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.797 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.780 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.771 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.767 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.758 views
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A Cofete house.757 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.755 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.754 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. ;)753 views
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Patterns of the ground.752 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.743 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)743 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.741 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.741 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.740 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)735 views
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Our Opel Corsa.728 views
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And they are really scenic.726 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.726 views
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Enjoying the wind.721 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.719 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. :)715 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.712 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.712 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.710 views
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Seagulls.709 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.707 views
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Climbing the dune.704 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.702 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.701 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.695 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.694 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.693 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.692 views
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From the road along the peninsula.691 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.688 views
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The city beach.686 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.685 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.683 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.682 views
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Beaches of Cofete.679 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.678 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.677 views
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A rock in the sand.676 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?670 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.665 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.665 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.662 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.661 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.657 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)655 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.654 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.652 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.651 views
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Cofete.651 views
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