We left our bungalow and drove to the coast at Tazacorte for breakfast and a look around. There were plenty of people sitting in the sun enjoying a coffee. I ordered a croissant. The menu had a photo of a normal sort of croissant, but what arrived looked somewhat different.
The first thing that one notices here is that the sand here is not the usual colour, it's black. People were swimming but it was a little too cold for us. We did paddle on the edge of the sea until we reached a point where the 'sand' was a little courser than sand.
When we reached the port, we found two vast areas where cruise ships might dock and many bays for buses which would collect the passengers and take them off for a trip. It looked as though the area had never been used for anything other than bike riding.
After lunch at the port, we set off for another trip into the Caldera de Taburiente, this time from near our bungalow at Los Llanos. Rather than climbing up to the top and then dropping down into the cauldron, we went at a higher level and drove down to river level where we could walk along the dry river bed, until, that is, we found water flowing. We walked along for about an hour, slowly climbing higher until we reached a waterfall that was too high for us to climb.
In the evening, we walked again into the town looking for restaurants, many of those recommended to us were closed in January. We did, however, find a pizza restaurant where one of the customers was determined to watch the Barcelona v Bilbao football match. He spent about 20 minutes trying to tune the TV into the right chanel and eventually succeeded, so we watched the match as well (Barcelona won!).
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