NORTH EAST - Weekend Excursion Corralejo- Lobos- Cotillo

Corralejo - Cotillo - Isla del Lobos

The island has many particular snorkeling spots, kitespots and windsurfspots to discover.

Water temperature is about 18 ° C, ( April), my bodywarmer is sufficient ( wetsuit not nessecary and also annoying for freediving), my swimming wear and camera are the remaining things of my equipment.

1) Corralejo

Absolutely difficult to enter the water because of rocks, currents and waves. Only biking/walking down to Playa Bayo Negro or at least this direction offers one of the only possibilities. 

Never I've seen that many seaslugs ( Gastropoda) and sea-cucumber ( Holothuria) in one 'snorkel-survey'.

2) Playa de Majanicho-Punta del Rincon - Caleta del Beatriz - Punta Aguda ( bike trip to Cotillo)

All other spots were down in a coastline from Corralejo to El Cotillo. I made a bike- trip, beautiful astonishing landscapes,surfers everywhere, lava-stone houses, fisher-villages and much more ...

 3) Isla de Lobos

Totally unique, close to the shore of Corralejo,  we find the El Puertito harbour in Isla de Lobos.

Remarkable about Isla de Lobos: 

 - The volcanic hill

- The 'Farol' or lighthouse

- Playa 'El Muelle'

I brought my bicycle on the island to make a full discovery.

It was quite astonishing what to encounter. The south, near 'El Puertito', has remarkable beaches with flat water.

Volcanic hill is quite impressive as well !

Yes, no suncreme and I look like lobster....

 In the end, it was also beautiful to watch the salt-mines. These are remainals from the old salt-extraction process.

In Puertito we spot the 'foca (Spanish)' or 'seal( English)' - skeleton, a memorial of the old presence of this species in the Atlantic, but now almost completely dissappeared.