Pics and other stuff

If this pic gives you vertigo, don’t go Well, I would like to start by expanding on the caption above. The main point of this hike, at le...

View west from the viewpoint, La Aldea de San Nicolás to the left A walk along the crest of Altavista, or Azaenegue in aboriginal langua...

Faneque, as seen from Tamadaba campsite viewpoints. Teide floating serenely on his cushion of clouds Faneque, the tallest above-sea clif...

La Aldea de San Nicolás to the left. To the right, a new road. La Aldea de San Nicolás, or simply La Aldea, is the least accessible villa...

Risco Blanco , The White Cliff, shining under the sun. After we had been finally released into the wild post-quarantine, we successfully...

Almonds of Tejeda This year, since we are allowed to go out and look at the beautiful spring of Gran Canaria, we try to do it as much as...

Impressive cliffs The second walk we’ve done in a very short stretch of time — we are all worried that our long awaited freedom will be ...

Smooth sandstone walls, arches, caves and grottoes While we continue to live in a situation where very few leisure things work*, we have ...

Do you see a camel on the left and an elephant on the right? The amusingly-shaped stone arch above is called Ventana del Bentayga , Wind...

Amazing color of the Yellow Mountain, Montaña Amarilla The last time me and Timur went to La Graciosa, the smallest of the inhabited Ca...

Small development next to the lighthouse looks Santorini-esque under the hot Canarian sun By now I walked most of Gran Canaria and lik...

Million euro view Pico de Las Nieves is the highest point of Gran Canaria, some 1,949 metres above sea level. Except it's not real...

Finally! A decent pic from the top. Shadow of Papa Teide on the morning mist and anticrepuscular rays I know it probably sounds ridicul...

Shallow lagoon Bahia de Salino filling with water in high tide Ok, with all the excitement of the wildfire over, the academic year ha...

A small waterfall a bit off the path Finally, I’ve seen all three places where water always runs on Gran Canaria. Well, actually, there...

These pines kept their needles, although they are dry and yellow. I think they have a good chance of recovery. I was hoping to never wr...

Beautiful water. Playa Mujeres This year’s summer holidays were a bit scrambled for us, due to this and that. To punctuate the month of...

An eruption? A wildfire? Nah... After years living on Gran Canaria I have identified for myself the three main "hanami" events...

Alien tentacles! Cthulhu raising to the surface! Tremble, you feeble humans... etc When I went up the Mount Teide two years ago I didn...

Busy busy bees When the year is just starting and everything goes green, it is time to check on some of our favourite plants on Gran C...