Lanzarote
Lanzarote lives up to expecations -- it is amazing! We arrived on Wednesday evening and docked in the Puerto Calero marina, on the southeast coast of the island.
28º55.026' N
13º42.041' W
First, a few pictures of the Salvagem island we stopped at, and a representative of each species of its animal inhabitants:
Below is the treacherous dock where I fell in the water. Our dinghy is the one closer to the water. My clothes and belongings are drying in the other dinghy, which belongs to the island office.
The two officials were very friendly, even though they were anxiously awaiting a boat to relieve them of their duty. The boat was two weeks late, so I think they were just happy to see some new people. The first thing they asked us was if we had any cigarettes. Having none, we offered them some chocolate instead. They accepted.
Next, some pictures of Isla Graciosa:
We had a perfect day of sailing for our trip from Isla Graciosa to Lanzarote. Warm weather, strong wind from the northeast, the current going with us... and no seasickness!
A couple pictures of me steering the boat -- I think I'm rocking out to U2 in the second photo:
Check out that scruffy facial hair from a month of unkempt unshavenness!
Okay, back to Lanzarote. When we arrived in Puerto Calero, the first thing we noticed was the abundance of racing sailboats in the marina. It turns out that there is a trans-Atlantic race that departs from here in the next few days.
Like in Madeira, we rented a car to explore the island, but this time the rental agency required that the driver be at least 25, so Robert is driving the car while we're here. You lucked out, drivers of Lanzarote!
On Thursday, we explored the north side of the island. A large portion of the architecture on the island is the brainchild of artist César Manrique, and we stopped at his bizarro former-home-turned-museum, which was built over a stream of petrified lava.
Some of his work on the island:
Today, we took the tour of the Timanfaya volcano park. The park is very touristy and crowded, but definitely worth the visit. The volcanoes in that region of the island erupted intermittently between 1730 and 1736, leaving an incredibly scarred and eerie landscape. Most of the island is covered in black lava rocks, but there are streaks of red and orange in sections of the island as well. The resulting impression I have of Lanzarote is sort of a crossbreeding of Arizona, Spain, and the moon.
Images from Lanzarote:
We will be departing for Fuerteventura either tomorrow or Sunday. It's supposed to be a lot greener, which will be weird after our visit to the moon.
28º55.026' N
13º42.041' W
First, a few pictures of the Salvagem island we stopped at, and a representative of each species of its animal inhabitants:
Below is the treacherous dock where I fell in the water. Our dinghy is the one closer to the water. My clothes and belongings are drying in the other dinghy, which belongs to the island office.
The two officials were very friendly, even though they were anxiously awaiting a boat to relieve them of their duty. The boat was two weeks late, so I think they were just happy to see some new people. The first thing they asked us was if we had any cigarettes. Having none, we offered them some chocolate instead. They accepted.
Next, some pictures of Isla Graciosa:
We had a perfect day of sailing for our trip from Isla Graciosa to Lanzarote. Warm weather, strong wind from the northeast, the current going with us... and no seasickness!
A couple pictures of me steering the boat -- I think I'm rocking out to U2 in the second photo:
Check out that scruffy facial hair from a month of unkempt unshavenness!
Okay, back to Lanzarote. When we arrived in Puerto Calero, the first thing we noticed was the abundance of racing sailboats in the marina. It turns out that there is a trans-Atlantic race that departs from here in the next few days.
Like in Madeira, we rented a car to explore the island, but this time the rental agency required that the driver be at least 25, so Robert is driving the car while we're here. You lucked out, drivers of Lanzarote!
On Thursday, we explored the north side of the island. A large portion of the architecture on the island is the brainchild of artist César Manrique, and we stopped at his bizarro former-home-turned-museum, which was built over a stream of petrified lava.
Some of his work on the island:
Today, we took the tour of the Timanfaya volcano park. The park is very touristy and crowded, but definitely worth the visit. The volcanoes in that region of the island erupted intermittently between 1730 and 1736, leaving an incredibly scarred and eerie landscape. Most of the island is covered in black lava rocks, but there are streaks of red and orange in sections of the island as well. The resulting impression I have of Lanzarote is sort of a crossbreeding of Arizona, Spain, and the moon.
Images from Lanzarote:
We will be departing for Fuerteventura either tomorrow or Sunday. It's supposed to be a lot greener, which will be weird after our visit to the moon.
posted by james at 11:47 PM
3 Comments:
Lanzarote looks more like Mars if you ask me. Did you know that they filmed part of Planet of the Apes there? anyway, good to see you are doing well, james, and that face is from a month of not shaving??? would take another year before any "scruffy facial hair" can be seen with the naked eyes :P keep blogging!
I hope you aren't suggesting that bird is a mammal! :)
And I think we need a close-up of this so-called facial hair. I couldn't see it!
Oops - fixed the "misclassification." :)
I'm going to let my mammalian facial hair grow a little more before I put up a close-up. Just be warned: by then you might not recognize me...
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