Having read with great interest various posts re-Tenerife, I would like to offer my own humble ramblings. Our first trip to Tenerife was in 2005 when were based at Puerto Santiago at the Tamaimo Tropical hotel.
We were based on the front of the hotel in a self catering appartment ( cant be doing with all inclusive doss by the pool type hols) This was the re-birth of my interest in photography and I intended to use the trip getting used to my Digital Sony DSC-H1 . Taking a walk to familiarise ourselves with the lay of the land we passed planters with what I think is a spiky plant called Christ's thorn. This gave me the first sightings of the holiday, a Canary Blue nectaring on the flowers and a Vine Hawk which briefly fed on the flowers then cleared off ( camera safely locked in safe back in the appartment ! )
The following day I left the other half reading a good book and crossed the road at the front of the hotel to explore a triangular piece of ground opposite , (see below) .
Over the course of the week this area yielded a couple of photographs of Long Tailed Blue, a couple of poor ones of Canary Blue and proved to be home to several lizards of various sizes. If you sat still for a while they got used to the idea you where not going to harm them and they posed beautifully.
Canary Blue
Long-Tailed Blue
Female Gallotia galloti
Male Gallotia galloti
During our stay we had these two regular visitors to the balcony, funny , we have a pair just the same at home! ,wondered if they were Barbary Doves?
On the final day as we were waiting for our transfer to the airport and the inevitable four and a bit hour flight back to the UK I turned to look out of the window and saw this:
OOOPS ! think someone left the chip pan on ! Sirens soon followed as the local Fire Brigade arrived to tackle it, no mean feat on an island with a shortage of water.
I shall leave it there for now, whilst I browse through more pics from our second visit, hope its not been too tedious !!
Dave C
