A hike along the beach of Costa Calma, Fuerteventura, 05-02-2019

From the hotel I walked to the south to the main beach of Costa Calma south of the hotel the first of a several beaches all the way to the even bigger tourist area near the old fishing town of Morro del Jable. The main attraction of Costa Calma, and probably the main reason for visiting Costa Calma, is the large, quiet bay with its clean sandy beach. The bay is about 1.5 km long and is the centre of the town. The town of Costa Calma consists of holiday flats, apartments, hotels, shopping centres and restaurants and is thus a pure holiday resort, built from about 1970. There is no historic town centre. In fact, no real centre is to be found at all. From our hotel I hiked to the south along Costa Calma beach. "Costa Calma" means "quiet coast"; it is called like this due to its offshore winds and the low waves resulting from them.

Costa Calma. In the background the wind turbines of the wind park near Costa Calma build with EU support. On Fuerteventura, there is a constant wind during the whole year.

The Barbary ground squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus). It is from the seaward side of the Atlas Mountains and was introduced into the Fuerteventura in 1965. It loves tourists and all the morsels they leave behind them.

Costa Calma is famous for its windsurfering. The wind on this part of the Fuerteventura is very reliable and the windsurf spot here offers some of the cleanest flat water blasting on the whole island.

A view towards our hotel.

The ruddy turnstone is a small wading bird,

Sanderling and ruddy turnstone

Sanderling

One of the beaches south of Costa Calma

The beach at the end of my hike

The cattle egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones.