After Lanzarote we head on to Tenerife where we meet Lucka and Micke who just arrived the day before and have a appartment close to Puerto de la Cruz.
the Anaga mountains in the northeast of Tenerifethe ferry almost ran over us..arriving in Santa Cruz de TenerifeMarina Santa Cruzthe first time away from She San we enjoy the barbeque on the balcony with Lucka and Mickeand going hiking in the forestwith a lot of fog an steep pathsand then there comes the sunour chosen hiking route is closed but we find a even better one 😉once above the clouds we have a great view of the Teidein the back the Faro de Anaga, which we saw the whole night through when we sailed over to Tenerifeall around Chamorga everything is greenfishermens memorialin the Teno mountains in the West of Tenerifethe Masca valleysome cactus in the valley above Bajamar
So we leave our She San for the first time over night and go hiking with them in several places on the island. We find Tenerife a really great place to go hiking. The paths are in great condition and the nature is very divers but most of all very green.
The next day we chose the northeast end of Tenerife, the Anaga mountains, and even though it is raining in the beginning, the hike tuns out ot be one of the most beautiful hikes we ever did.
Then we decide to take a day “a hiking break” and stroll through the city. Afterwards we all find that it was the most exhausting of our walks…
so we go hiking again in the far west of Tenerife, and again it is awesome..
Then Reto and I head on to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, since there are still a lot of to do’s before we continue to Cabo Verde and on further westwards.
Reto doing the maintenance on the mast sliderswhile I make the provisions to be stored away bug proofand once again our rig needs adjustment…the first part of the water maker is installed and commissioned 😉the Lazybag (in which the sail is stored) needs some repair and especially new zippersno problem thanks to the Bernina sewing machine that we got as a present from Reto’s mom Felicitas 😉this time the mast steps need to be mounted in the top, again many bruises are caughtwe fix the plates of the Bimini directly on top of the construction, so it becomes more stable and the Bimini fabric needs some repairwe bought a nice piece of wood, now it has to be transported by bicycleit looks like it stays fixed on the backpackand it works 😉our swiss-austrian neighbor Erich with his crew start their atlantic passage to St. Luciathe long sandy beach of Las Palmas, the Playa de las Canteras, here with some soccer fansand since on the beach it is impossible to find Cruzcampo we “have to” drink Heineken 😉the Banda del Garage is playing some good spanisch rock and popchistmas decoration in the shopping streets of Las Palmassome very good beer in a very spanish Cruzcampo bar…Octopus alla Gallega, muuuuy bien!!Las Palmas city and harbourand from higher upview down to the old city of Vegueta with cathedral and banana plantations just before the citythe backside of the Santa Ana cathedral in La Veguetawe feel like back at the time of ColumbusMarket in Vega de San Mateohigh above in the hills above Las PalmasGran Canaria consits of one valley after the otherTeror, enjoy a beer on the main plazathe main street in Terorwe especially like the wooden balconies
But next to all that work – which is of course also most of the times a lot of fun- we also sometimes take our time to enjoy where we are ;-),
so we check out the beach and the “night life” in the streets of Las Palmas
and we go biking around the island, which is very mountainous and has thousands of valleys, the so called barrancos
Then we feel ready to go, but the wind has a different opinion. Due to the depressions in the north the local winds since two weeks rather come from South/Southeast instead of North/Northeast, so we see that it doesn’t make any sense to go south to Cabo Verde yet.
No problem, let’s go to La Gomera, anyway we always wanted to see that mountainous island in the West of Tenerife, and also we wanted to make a testrun of our watermaker and to test the repaired sails.
successful commissioning of our self made water makerso right at the time of sunset…we enjoy the freshy de-salinated water 😉
So after a short period of struggling with diverse commissioning problems we are happy that everything runs well, and soon we taste our first de-salinated water 😉 .
In addition to water making we catch a small bonito (that’s already nothing special anymore, but we still are very happy ;-), and I say to Reto, “we need to eat it raw, otherwise it is gone after one meal. And then the next morning just before the entrance to La Gomera we catch his father, now this one is really enough again for the next days, and we still had half of the small one left over..
arriving in San Sebastian de la Gomeraafter already having eaten half of the small one, now the large one needs to be cleaned and prepared…in the harbour of San SebastianSan Sebastian harbour, our She San to the left of the orange Salvamar boat
Even though the ferries are close and the rowing race in preparation we enjoy the peacefulness of La Gomera harbour. And go mountain biking into the mountains, all around the parque national de Guaranjay.
on La Gomera it goes either up or downView down into the valley of VallehermosoLos Roques, these rocks were formed by lavathe palm trees and the surrounding sea we are not used to from the Swiss mountains 😉the number of facinating views seems endlessSan Sebastian de la Gomera with Teneriffa in the backGomera’s summits with Teneriffa and Teideand again the Los Roques …with this sound nobody can resist the merengues, salsas and cumbias
And because we liked it so much we go back hiking – we really enjoy the senderos, hiking paths and the most stunning views!
also we find the first real latin music party and enjoy dancing the merengues and salsas with the local band making good groovy sound.
Also we are very much impressed by the rowers preparing to go 3000 miles over to Antigua, and we cannot imagine, how it is in such small boats.
I promiss to Reto that I should never complain on our confortable catamaran or otherwise he should remind me of the rowers in their tiny boats, who in addition have to row and sleep within view meters of boat only.
with these small boats the rowers cross the atlantic!eone of the two girls teams at the start of the Antlantic Challenge – the worlds toughest rowand here the guys from the ROW2RECOVERY, all of them carry 1 or 2 limb prosthesis, they have our full respect!!
Now the wind has changed, tomorrow also the waves are supposed to calm down (thanks to Petra and Ben from the Netherlands we didn’t go today, when the waves still were pretty high, influenced by the depressions in the north), so we plan to start tomorrow Monday to Cabo Verde, straight way 760 miles, so if everything goes well in 6 or 7 days we should be there.
We want to wish you all a merry and peaceful Christmas time!
2 thoughts on “Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Gomera”
Hola. Solo deciros que Canarias es España. Vosotros lo ponéis en dos categorías diferentes. Una España y otra Canarias cuando es el mismo país.
Un saludo
Si, tienes razon, yo le se pero no se porque lo hizo asi en este tiempo. Talvez porque uno es en la categoria “Mar mediteranneo” e la otra en “Atlantico”.. Muchas gracias de toda maneira por commentarlo!
Hola. Solo deciros que Canarias es España. Vosotros lo ponéis en dos categorías diferentes. Una España y otra Canarias cuando es el mismo país.
Un saludo
Si, tienes razon, yo le se pero no se porque lo hizo asi en este tiempo. Talvez porque uno es en la categoria “Mar mediteranneo” e la otra en “Atlantico”.. Muchas gracias de toda maneira por commentarlo!