South Fuerteventura

Leaving behind Puerto del Rosario (Canary Islands), we headed further south down the eastern coast of the island called Fuerteventura to another port, Gran Tarajal. Arriving about 5.5 hours later, we were surprised to discover we were the only boat in sight at anchorage; all others were in the marina.

Masts sticking up behind the breakwater

After a calm night at anchor, we continued our southern jaunt for the beaches that make this coastline the major attraction. We first dropped anchor in the emerald waters at Playa Sotavento (Jandia Beach) that ran for miles. We pulled the dinghy up onto the beautiful beach and strolled the sand which was variegated with colours of golden and coral with dramatic seams of black interspersed.

Nice beach for dinghy landing

Sea Turtle anchored at Jandia Beach

We then continued in calm seas to another area, 5 to 6 nautical miles further to Matorral Beach at the point of land that turned west. There we could see wind-driven chop around the corner so we prudently stayed back and anchored in calm for the night; the next night we rounded the corner to Morro Jable for a quiet stay before departing to another Canary Island, Gran Canaria.

Our final anchorages of Fuerteventura:
N28°12.355' W014°01.866' Nov 23 Gran Tarajal
N28°07.519' W014°14.736' Nov 24 Jandia Beach
N28°03.179' W014°18.961' Nov 24 Matorral Beach
N28°03.171' W014°22.075' Nov 25 Morro Jable