 Most viewed - Fuerteventura - Day 5
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... perfect for long walks ...2159 views
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A long stretch of sand.1765 views
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Road.1060 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.941 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.808 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.798 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.783 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.772 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.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.769 views
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A Cofete house.762 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.761 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.757 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. ;)755 views
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Patterns of the ground.755 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)746 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.745 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.744 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.743 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.742 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)737 views
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And they are really scenic.731 views
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Our Opel Corsa.730 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.728 views
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Enjoying the wind.723 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.721 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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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. :)717 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.714 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.712 views
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Seagulls.711 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.710 views
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Climbing the dune.706 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.704 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.703 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.696 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.696 views
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From the road along the peninsula.695 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.694 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.690 views
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The city beach.688 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.687 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.685 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.684 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.684 views
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Beaches of Cofete.681 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.680 views
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A rock in the sand.678 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?672 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.668 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.667 views
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I even had a photo taken of me.667 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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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.665 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.664 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)657 views
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Desolate, but beautiful.656 views
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Cofete.655 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.655 views
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