Tenerife - January 2009
Once again we took a winter holiday in Tenerife, this time staying at the Hotel Fanabe Costa Sur in Costa Adeje which is just a few miles north of Los Cristianos where we had stayed before. A good day out was to walk to Los Cristianos for lunch and then back again
A cactus with an interesting fruit
Brightly coloured flowers were everywhere
A tree with roots hanging from its branches
The Swans Neck Agave flowers progressively up its stem ...
... like this
Pink Bougainvillea
Purple Bougainvillea
A bank of Bougainvillea showing some colour variants
Another large cactus (about 2 metres high)
Undercover banana plantation (this is a small one!)
El Mirador shopping centre - traditional style ...
... very arts and crafts
Hotels and mountains
More hotels
And more hotels
Parascending from Playa de Torviscas
Parascending from Playa de Torviscas
Undercut rocks in Playa del Duque
Fishing at Playa de Fanabe
Now that's what I call a balcony!
A view of the Costa Adeje coastline
Shops, hotels and mountains
Coming out of a dry dock in Los Cristianos harbour
Surfers waiting for a wave
This shot of surfers was taken almost into the sun
Surfers on a wave
Another surfer
Our hotel at night
A nearby shopping centre viewed from the hotel roof
Another shopping centre viewed from the hotel roof
A view of the bay taken into the sun
A view of the Casa del Duque
When the waves were high this blow-hole was really spectacular
A banana plant
We did the whale watching trip again, this was a dolphin
Sea bass farming in the bay
A pilot whale
This pretty mural with inlaid mother-of-pearl was on the boat
A pilot whale
Another pilot whale
A very clear view of La Gomera
Female kestrel on a ledge
A Whimbrel
Turnstones
A group of Turnstones
The flower of a succulant
Another very bright flower
Val along the coast path
Pete along the coast path
Another hotel complex
Just a view of a beach
Someone had spent a long time creating these ...
... and these
This is the Castor Oil Plant (Ricinus Communis). Male flowers at the bottom produce pollen for the female flowers at the top ...
... which then produce the spikey fruit which at one stage look like chestnut fruit ...
... The nuts inside are the source of caster oil but their shells contain the deadly poison, Ricin.
Bee on a very colourful flower
The beach at Playa del Duque