Is it in the North
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Where am I talking about in Tenerife...
Topdog-
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Topdog wrote:Is it in the North
Nope, definitely in the south.
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Unless he walks around with his eyes shut I think Howard should get where this is.
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It is the harbour at Las Galletas
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Spot on Vince, so it is now down to you to add somewhere on the island from your holiday snaps.
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Sorry I dont have any, the ones I did have went with the nicked lappy a few years back!
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put "Tenerife" into google images and stick one on here VincePerfectspecimen wrote:Sorry I dont have any, the ones I did have went with the nicked lappy a few years back!
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OK, I'll go for you - but whoever guesses will have to wait until tomorrow as I'm off out tonight.
Here goes I will do a hardish one for those who tend to stick around the southern resorts (This is in the west)
and for those who don´t know that one, how about this one
Here goes I will do a hardish one for those who tend to stick around the southern resorts (This is in the west)
and for those who don´t know that one, how about this one
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I will give others a chance as I believe I know these.
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I think its the Spanish resort just before Playa San Juan but cant remember the name of it!
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No Vince it is Playa San Juan ..... and the other one is???
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Silenco
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Hi Gypsy
Yes the pictures are Tenerife, it’s the dam on the Barranco del Rio, behind El Rio. El Rio is situated to the north of the Renia Sofia airport, come out the airport, head north on the TF-1 for approx 12 km to exit 20, then head left up in to the mountains another few kilometres and your there. Links below gives more data relating to dam. Recall reading that a change in the in the ground structure around the dam had made the land porous, resulting in the reservoir created by the dam no longer holding water.
Las Galletas, was unsure of location you posted from first view, but recognised it from second, been in a couple of the restaurants on the harbour, good seafood at reasonable prices.
The Playa San Jaun one, may actually be in the photograph, had visited there once previously when on holiday, years later decided to revisit, got off the bus, headed down the small side street to the beach, “Construction Site”, made the most of it, had lunch in one of the restaurants shown in the photo while watching the Tonka Toys at work and being covered in dust. Don’t recognise the second photo.
Presa del Rio info:
http://www.tenerifewalks.com/tenerife-walks/barranco-del-rio-and-the-dam/
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36725
Yes the pictures are Tenerife, it’s the dam on the Barranco del Rio, behind El Rio. El Rio is situated to the north of the Renia Sofia airport, come out the airport, head north on the TF-1 for approx 12 km to exit 20, then head left up in to the mountains another few kilometres and your there. Links below gives more data relating to dam. Recall reading that a change in the in the ground structure around the dam had made the land porous, resulting in the reservoir created by the dam no longer holding water.
Las Galletas, was unsure of location you posted from first view, but recognised it from second, been in a couple of the restaurants on the harbour, good seafood at reasonable prices.
The Playa San Jaun one, may actually be in the photograph, had visited there once previously when on holiday, years later decided to revisit, got off the bus, headed down the small side street to the beach, “Construction Site”, made the most of it, had lunch in one of the restaurants shown in the photo while watching the Tonka Toys at work and being covered in dust. Don’t recognise the second photo.
Presa del Rio info:
http://www.tenerifewalks.com/tenerife-walks/barranco-del-rio-and-the-dam/
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36725
betty swollocks-
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The beach is now finished
More photos in the set
More photos in the set
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Yes beach finished then washed away
then finished again.
Adam, I have friends who live up in El Rio and I never knew the dam was there. I must have had to drive past it to get to the church and the little shop before I have to turn up into the mountains proper.
then finished again. Adam, I have friends who live up in El Rio and I never knew the dam was there. I must have had to drive past it to get to the church and the little shop before I have to turn up into the mountains proper.
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Sorry Mermaid, of course you are correct, it is the replacement for the totem poles in Costa del Silencio.
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you beat me to it vince. 35 min walk down the dogshit trail.Perfectspecimen wrote:It is the harbour at Las Galletas
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Hi Gypsy
Still trying to get my bearings on the first picture of Las Galletas, is the building in the picture the Harbour Masters office at the end of the pier? If it is, picture shows moorings to the right (starboard) side of it, has harbour been extended recently? Or am I just lost...
The Playa San Jaun beach washed away photo, was that during the Jan/Feb 2010 storms, or more recently.
Still trying to get my bearings on the first picture of Las Galletas, is the building in the picture the Harbour Masters office at the end of the pier? If it is, picture shows moorings to the right (starboard) side of it, has harbour been extended recently? Or am I just lost...
The Playa San Jaun beach washed away photo, was that during the Jan/Feb 2010 storms, or more recently.
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Just shows how much I notice, I didn't realise they had goneGypsy wrote:Sorry Mermaid, of course you are correct, it is the replacement for the totem poles in Costa del Silencio.
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Sorry Gypsy, never saw your comment re EL Rio:
“Adam, I have friends who live up in El Rio and I never knew the dam was there. I must have had to drive past it to get to the church and the little shop before I have to turn up into the mountains proper.”
Drove around a bit when in Tenerife, but don’t think ever been to El Rio, came across dam info after return to uk, had I known of it when we were out there would most likely have taken a run up for a look. Map shows a road going over the top of the dam, but looking at some of the video links referring to the dam, and if the road shown in them is the one in question, don’t think you would want to take a car up it.
“Adam, I have friends who live up in El Rio and I never knew the dam was there. I must have had to drive past it to get to the church and the little shop before I have to turn up into the mountains proper.”
Drove around a bit when in Tenerife, but don’t think ever been to El Rio, came across dam info after return to uk, had I known of it when we were out there would most likely have taken a run up for a look. Map shows a road going over the top of the dam, but looking at some of the video links referring to the dam, and if the road shown in them is the one in question, don’t think you would want to take a car up it.
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I have never seen the dam and often head off up past El Rio, will hunt it out.
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Think the photo is taken from where they land the fish Adam Mint.
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Explaining the road /dam in previous post reminded me of a holiday experience some years back in Gran Canaria, we were based just north of Puerto Rico at Playa de Cura.
Decided to hire a car and do our own exploring, headed up to Puerto de Mogan, then inland through the village of Mogan itself, as we came out of Mogan the free map (very basic map) we had been given with the car hire showed a road heading up in to the mountains/volcanoes, off we headed up this road. The road initially was tarmac and two lane, the higher we climbed the road narrowed down to one lane and the further we went it turned in to a dirt track. The other half at this point suggested we turn round, but I (Toto) pointed out that there were fresh tyre tracks in the mud therefore indicating the road was in use and must go somewhere. After travelling further in to the wilderness we came upon a “Y” junction not shown on our map, given my male inbuilt superior sense of direction I decided to bear right as it would take us back towards the sea and therefore be downhill as we were now in a very mountainous area, “oh how wrong”.
Off we set, the road by this point was no wider than the car, next thing we are travelling along what can only be described as a shelf cut in to the mountain side with a sheer drop on my side of several hundred if not thousand feet in to a lake/reservoir (Worse than Masca). By this point the other half is screaming her head off to turn round, I would have, but it was impossible, I could not even have reversed the car back up the road it was so narrow, at times to keep from going over the edge the passenger side wing mirror was scraping the side of the cliff, accompanied by more screams (by this time from both of us).
But my superior knowledge did prevail to a point, we were heading down hill, eventually we could see the dam in the distance that formed the reservoir, as we got closer we could see the road traversed the top of the dam, but unlike the dam in the pictures there were no sides to the road, just a flat slab of concrete the width of the car stretching some forty feet or so, with a drop on one side in to the reservoir and the same on the other in to the river flowing from it, probably the most nerve-racking and careful forty feet I have ever driven.
Tried to locate it on Google maps pre posting this but could not find.
Decided to hire a car and do our own exploring, headed up to Puerto de Mogan, then inland through the village of Mogan itself, as we came out of Mogan the free map (very basic map) we had been given with the car hire showed a road heading up in to the mountains/volcanoes, off we headed up this road. The road initially was tarmac and two lane, the higher we climbed the road narrowed down to one lane and the further we went it turned in to a dirt track. The other half at this point suggested we turn round, but I (Toto) pointed out that there were fresh tyre tracks in the mud therefore indicating the road was in use and must go somewhere. After travelling further in to the wilderness we came upon a “Y” junction not shown on our map, given my male inbuilt superior sense of direction I decided to bear right as it would take us back towards the sea and therefore be downhill as we were now in a very mountainous area, “oh how wrong”.
Off we set, the road by this point was no wider than the car, next thing we are travelling along what can only be described as a shelf cut in to the mountain side with a sheer drop on my side of several hundred if not thousand feet in to a lake/reservoir (Worse than Masca). By this point the other half is screaming her head off to turn round, I would have, but it was impossible, I could not even have reversed the car back up the road it was so narrow, at times to keep from going over the edge the passenger side wing mirror was scraping the side of the cliff, accompanied by more screams (by this time from both of us).
But my superior knowledge did prevail to a point, we were heading down hill, eventually we could see the dam in the distance that formed the reservoir, as we got closer we could see the road traversed the top of the dam, but unlike the dam in the pictures there were no sides to the road, just a flat slab of concrete the width of the car stretching some forty feet or so, with a drop on one side in to the reservoir and the same on the other in to the river flowing from it, probably the most nerve-racking and careful forty feet I have ever driven.
Tried to locate it on Google maps pre posting this but could not find.
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Gypsy wrote:So AM, are the images you posted in Tenerife and if so where are they? :what:
Here is a really easy one to get us back on track - its all in the background.
This if I remember rightly is taken from the beach side where the cars park along the road.
Gypsy wrote:No...... check out the building.
OK same place, different angle.
and this one is taken from the cafe at the end of the 'new' harbour.
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Yip, know where you are, bus stops are just behind what looks like a green car (centre of second picture), next to the bit of waste land where they set up the fair. Can also see my error in recognising first picture, thought it had been taken from the bar type place on the headland opposite the end of the pier, plus what I thought were boats moored in the distance are probably houses. (Should have waited until I had a drink in me, all makes sense now).
