Lobos loop – Fuerteventura

Today we took a boat trip from Corralejo to the island of Lobos. The uninhabited island of Lobos (Spanish Islote de Lobos, island of the seals) is part of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, which belong to Spain. You can easily walk around it, about 11 km, and there are also beautiful bays for swimming and snorkeling. The Faro de Martiño lighthouse has stood on the northern tip since 1863. The highest point is the volcanic mountain Montaña La Caldera, which is 127 m high. Unfortunately, the weather today was relatively "bad" by Canary Island standards, as it was quite cloudy and therefore the view was not that great. There is only one tiny restaurant in Puertito on the uninhabited island, which is a nature reserve. Before you buy a ticket, you now need a visitor's permit, which you have to get online beforehand. It is free of charge. The round trip by boat cost 17,-€ per person.

Apparently you need a permit for the island. But we didn't have to show ours and according to the permit, only 200 people are allowed to be at each of the two timeslots (10 a.m. - 2 p.m. & 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.). Theoretically there should only have been around 80 people there (2nd slot) but there were many more there. At the beginning there were still a few people around. But after a few kilometers you met fewer and fewer people. There also doesn't seem to be any control over the times, so you can definitely stay on the island longer if you book a suitable ferry. We were lucky, no one could go to the island for 4 days because the waves prevented that, but we were able to get over on our day. (€16 return, 15min drive each way). Nice tour, especially the view from the lighthouse of the small. Hill was very beautiful and Montana was also really beautiful.

GR-131. the number is on my mind. The Canarian long-distance hiking trail GR-131 could be my next adventure. In the next few days I will hike individual stages on Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Gomera to be really sure that I want to tackle it. So today the GR-131 on the Isla de Lobos between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Easily accessible by ferry or water taxi from Corralejo. No hotels, no cars, just a tiny hamlet with a restaurant. An easy tour that was worth it: see photos. All tours on the Canary Islands: https://www.komoot.de/collection/1396171/-kanarische-inselen

During archaeological excavations in 2012[3] and 2022[4], a workshop for extracting purple from the sea snail Stramonita haemastoma was uncovered on Lobos. More than 60,000 snail shells were counted. In these shell piles and their surroundings were found tools that the purple workers used in the manufacturing process, such as basalt anvils and hammers, small parts of iron blades (possibly knives), hearths and the remains of lead cauldrons. On the island of Lobos there are other sites that indicate a variety of activities, such as: B. point out fishing. A variety of special instruments, hooks and needles for making nets, net weights made of stone and lead, and harpoon tips made of iron were unearthed. Ceramic, metal and stone tools were produced in the period between the first century B.C. and the first century AD. The ceramics show similarities to those from Gades, today's Cádiz.

Anyone who goes to the island should decide beforehand whether they want to hike to the lighthouse or go swimming in the sea. The 4 hours allowed by the local authority are not enough for both.

From the port of Corralejo, it takes 15 minutes on the ferry (€ 15 there and back) to Isla de Lobos. There you can hike a beautiful circular route with a few variations and make a detour to the Montaña La Caldera to enjoy the view over the sea to Fuerteventura and Lanzerote.

Magnificent excursion practically surrounding the island of Lobos in Fuerteventura, from where the ferry leaves us that is taken in summer every half hour in Corralejo and that there are also many other alternatives from the same port of Corralejo, and in an anti-clockwise direction we started walking around to the island towards the Martiño Lighthouse, and then continue and ascend to La Caldera, (it is worth going up), then we continue towards the beach of La Caleta, also called La Concha, to give ourselves a good soak and rest, because it was very hot And it came from pearls, the bath on that beach was paradisiacal, after bathing we continued towards El Puertito where we ate in a privileged and authentic environment, we ate rice because they advised us to but I particularly recommend eating fish because it is better than rice and it is fresh , and around 5:00 p.m. we took the ferry back to Corralejo, after having spent a spectacular day on the island of Lobos,,, Highly recommended.

What a nice trip: With the ferry to the island of wolves - the Isla de Lobos. The name Lobos comes from the sea lions (lobos marinos) that used to live on the Lobos coast. We didn't see any today 😅 There was a lot of nature, sand, sun and water... the ingredients that make up great days. 😃 Climbing the Montaña de Caldera - the highest volcano on the island at 127 meters - was a peak mountaineering achievement 😃 ... at least for me as a North German 😇 But we were able to relax by swimming… and with a sangria when we returned 😇