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... perfect for long walks ...1701 views
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A long stretch of sand.1232 views
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Road.578 views
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Looooong beach ...281 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.268 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.244 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.242 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.234 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.229 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.228 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.228 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. ;)224 views
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Enjoying the wind.224 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.223 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.223 views
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The city beach.222 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.222 views
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Climbing the dune.221 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.221 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?221 views
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Seagulls.220 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.219 views
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Beaches of Cofete.219 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.218 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.217 views
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And they are really scenic.216 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.216 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.215 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.215 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.215 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.214 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.214 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.213 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.213 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.213 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.212 views
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Patterns of the ground.210 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.210 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.207 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. :)206 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.205 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.204 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.200 views
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Our Opel Corsa.200 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.200 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)199 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.198 views
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A Cofete house.198 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)198 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.197 views
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Cofete.197 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.196 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.196 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.196 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.196 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)194 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.193 views
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From the road along the peninsula.192 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.190 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.190 views
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A rock in the sand.188 views
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