The wave everyone talks about at Punta Blanca

El Cotillo, Fuerteventura//Activities/6 min read

Why surfers cross Europe for a few days of the right swell in the north of Fuerteventura.

Written with by Clara Ibáñez
El Cotillo, Fuerteventura.

Draft. This story will explain how the wave at Punta Blanca forms, when it works and who surfs it.

Puntagorda, La Palma.

It will also be about the village around it: fishermen, goats and a cheese that travels further than the surfers do.

Red mojo from La Palma, Mojo de Candelaria. Puntagorda, La Palma.

[The full text of this story is still to be written. Photos will go in as the story needs them.]

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The place

Canary Islands

Fuerteventura is dry, windy and wide open, with lava fields, dunes and long beaches. Around Antigua, Majorera goats graze on almost nothing and give the milk for Majorero cheese.

Things to love about Fuerteventura

  • Lava fields and wide, empty landscapes
  • Majorera goats heading out at dawn
  • The waves of El Cotillo in the north
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Red mojo from La Palma

Red mojo from La Palma

Puntagorda, La Palma
€5.00
Majorero PDO goat's cheese

Majorero PDO goat's cheese

Antigua, Fuerteventura
€15.00

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