 Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5
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... perfect for long walks ...2159 views
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A long stretch of sand.1766 views
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Road.1061 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.944 views
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Looooong beach ...911 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.811 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.800 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.789 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.774 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.772 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.771 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.765 views
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A Cofete house.764 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.761 views
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Patterns of the ground.759 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. ;)756 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.747 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)746 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.745 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.745 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.744 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)741 views
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Our Opel Corsa.733 views
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And they are really scenic.731 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.729 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.727 views
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Enjoying the wind.726 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. :)719 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.717 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.715 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.715 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.714 views
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Seagulls.713 views
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Climbing the dune.707 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.706 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.705 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.700 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.698 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.698 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.696 views
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From the road along the peninsula.695 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.692 views
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The city beach.690 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.688 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.687 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.687 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.686 views
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Beaches of Cofete.683 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.682 views
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A rock in the sand.681 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?674 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.672 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.671 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.670 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.669 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.666 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.666 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.663 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)661 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.658 views
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Cofete.658 views
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