View from our balcony after check-in - a late breakfast - bacon and eggs, coffee, and orange juice on the balcony.
Tenerife
Day 3: July 14
Barranco Hondo-Mesa del Mar
Tenerife
Itinerary
Around 12, we said goodbye to our spacious quarters and drove to the next apartment. At the gate, we were met by the hostess, a pretty woman. We parked the car under the house. It turned out to be an ordinary residential 4-story building, attached to the cliff. Ordinary people live here… The apartment was small (especially compared to the previous one), the furniture was old, but overall - the impression was good. There was a balcony with a very beautiful view of the ocean. The hostess says that dolphins can sometimes be seen. But unfortunately, we never saw them…
And then we descended to the sea along the winding road. The parking lot was small, completely full, but we were very lucky and right in front of our noses a car pulled out and freed up a spot for us. We parked and went swimming.
Road to the Sea
First, we swam in this natural pool surrounded by rocks. The descent there was by a little staircase, like into a swimming pool, and the water was clear. We swam with a mask. There were lots of fish. Funny ones (as Volchy called them — a mix of moray eel and goby), black with red cheeks, crawled over the pebbles. There was also a large school of gray fish. And all kinds of other little fish we had already seen many times before. And I also saw a beautiful pearly shell on the bottom. The water was cold, and Volchy also scared me by saying that you mustn’t swim into the center of the pool or the waves would carry you out into the ocean. So we had to get out onto the shore. Rather, here instead of a shore there were these concrete steps.
Descending the stairs to the ocean
After that, we went through a tunnel and came out onto another, real beach. It was large, and there were many people there. There was a pedestrian area with little lights. We walked along the ocean, all the way to the very end, where the beach ends and there are rocks. People were sitting on the rocks, and some were jumping off the rocks and then somehow climbing back up.
We went back to the car and drove to Bajamar. We even managed to park the car somehow by a miracle (parking on Tenerife is a big problem), and went out to the ocean. There were kind of enclosed pools right in the ocean. But we didn’t like it there. It was cloudy, gray, somehow not very pretty.
The promenade in Bajamar, in the distance, if you look closely, you can see the "pool" and people in it
We took a little walk along the promenade. Then we went back to the car. I went to a little shop for tortillas — we were going to make burritos again!
We got back home and opened a bottle of white wine. We ate burritos with sausage, mozzarella, tomatoes, corn, and lettuce. It was even a bit hot on the balcony. The sun was beginning to set. Around 7 p.m. we decided to go once more to that beach down the road and swim there.
There were fewer cars in the parking lot. Crowds of people were coming toward us through the tunnel — everyone was leaving. The water was cold, we swam for a short while and headed back.
Wolf and Ocean
From the parking area, we took a short walk along the path by the ocean to a very small fishing village. Along the way, we saw hard-to-reach coves with clear water.
Fishermen’s Village
On the way home
The House We Live In