Winter Sun – Sunset

By far our most favourite activity in our holiday home in Puerto de las Nieves was watching the sunset.

We were out to watch the show every evening.

Mostly we watched from the wooden benches or the rocks near the seawater pools

Which has the advantage of a small bar for a nice cold lemon beer to help things along.

Our first night was cloudy and the sun disappeared behind a bank of cloud before the colours could emerge.

After that for almost the rest of our stay the evenings were pin sharp clear. Great for soaking up the last warmth of the sun but not quite so good for dramatic skies.

Still plenty to enjoy (as well as the beer!). Watching to comings and goings of the ferries.

Walking on the cliffs to admire the deep brown hues of the rocky coastline.

There are paths along this coast but despite being here for almost two weeks I never seemed to find the time!

We sometimes watched the sunset from the harbour.

The views different but equally eye catching.

We did have one evening with a thin cloud cover that gave us a little more colour.

A small amount of pink glow to the sky.

Tenerife and El Teide always attracts the eye and the camera lens.

I always tried to catch the ferry crossing the suns path.

In the second week the waves had picked up and added an extra dimension to the sunsets.

I spent a lot of time trying to catch a shot of the waves with the sun behind.

These were pretty good but my best effort is the headline photo at the top of the post.

More pink skies.

More views of Tenerife.

Crashing waves by the seawater pools.

Wave action.

And much smaller boats crossing the suns path.

One evening we just sat on one of the benches on the promenade.

There was always a gathering of people and a happy relaxed atmosphere, never loud or crowded.

A great spot to admire El Teide.

A fine family time with beer and snacks.

On our last evening in PdlN we finally had a degree of cloud cover above the horizon and we hoped for aa more colourful display.

As the sun went down it began to illuminate the clouds.

More small boats and Tenerife combos.

Waves catching the evening light.

And we finally had our glorious show of colour.

I took a huge number of photos and its taken me quite a while to filter them down.

I like this one as it has all my favourite features. Orange sky, dragons back ridge, Tenerife and waves.

Took a couple of weeks but we had the perfect last evening by the sea.

We had to tear ourselves away as the sky darkened and the colours faded. Magnificent spectacle to end our stay.

But that was only the end of our stay in PdlN. We had one more place to visit at the end of our trip.