Items filtered by date: May 2024

Another superb time lapse video taken around Mount Teide, all set to relaxing music, showing the amazing cloud movement and the heavens moving across the sky at night.

There is another carnival on Tenerife coming up, the Costa San Miguel Carnaval in Golf del Sur. This one starts at 5pm by the San Blas commecial centre goes down the Calle San Miguel, ending at the Aguamarina Hotel.

A man accused of killing an Irish tourist while on holiday in Tenerife 16 years ago has been found not guilty by a jury in Santa Cruz.

Darren Sapstead from Essex, was cleared of pushing Garry Walton in to the sea while on a booze cruse of the coast of Playa de las Americas in 1996.

He was cleared after inconsistences in the prosecution witness’s statements. Katie and Lucy Smethurst, who incriminated Mr Sapstead by approaching Manchester police 10 months after the event, change their accounts of the events that day.

Mr Walton drowned after falling in to the sea and the original inquest verdict in 1997 had been of accidental death. There was no sign of violence on Mr Walton’s body and the accused never changed his story.

Mr Sapstead was extradited to Spain in 2005, where he spent time in a Spanish jail on remand after the case was reopened. During this time he lost his £300,000 business and has spent thousands trying to clear his name. He was allowed to return to the UK on bail while a judge continued to investigate the death.

This is the official promotional video for the 2013 Arona carnival held in Los Cristianos. The theme this year is ‘Brazil’. The carnaval started on the 1st March and goes on until the 11th march. Fortunately the storm that hit Tenerife this week didn’t coincide with any of the celebrations.

Just before the recent storm in the Canary Islands a Fred Olsen ferry set sail from Los Cristianos to La Palma carrying 200 passengers for what should have been a relatively short passage. However, the journey turned in to a 10 hour nightmare for the passengers when the ship got stranded at sea during the storm this week.

After leaving Los Cristianos at 14:30 on Sunday, just before the storm hit, the ship battled its way through very rough seas only to be denied access to the port in La Palma as it was too dangerous to dock. The ship had already spent four hours in rough seas and had no choice but to head back to Tenerife.

Unfortunately the sea conditions got worse and the ship diverted to La Gomera where it hoped to shelter from the storm. However the conditions had by now got so bad that the ship couldn’t dock here either.

So the ship headed back to Los Cristianos but the port here had now shut as well, so she had to sail to Santa Cruz where she finally docked after 10 torturous hours at sea.

The passengers had to sleep on blankets supplied by the Red Cross. Passengers are asking why the ship was allowed to sail at all, given that there was wide knowledge of the severe storm approaching. Passengers described panic as the ship was tossed about on the sea by hurricane force winds.

Tenerife’s turtles are friendly and cute creatures. Not only do they like to be tickled, they also love to eat bubbles. Here is a video of some divers with turtles swimming around them eating the bubbles from their oxygen tanks. ahhhh.

Fred Olsen Express ferry struggling to dock in Los Cristianos harbour as a storm hits Tenerife.

An orange alert has been issued for today for Tenerife by the Met Office. High winds, up to 140kmh, caused damage to property last night; communications and transport have also been hit.

Approximately 10000 homes are without power on Tenerife and La Palma.

There are delays Tenerife airport, with over 50 flights being cancelled or diverted in the Canary Islands and shipping was confined to harbour, several road have been closed due to rock falls. Los Cristianos harbour was closed completely for safety reasons.

Schools and universities have been closed as a precaution a decision will be made later today about opening them tomorrow. Most emergency calls have been about fallen trees and landslides due to the high winds and torrential rain. Falling masonry and trees have caused damage to property and cars.

You can watch a video of waves coming over the harbor walls at Los Cristianos.

You may have heard about the very bad weather Tenerife has been expriencing this weekend, well here is a video taken at Los Cristianos harbor at the weekend.

The Met office for the Canary Islands have issued a storm warning for the weekend with two weather fronts hitting the island on friday and a second on one Sunday, bringing high winds and heavy rain to Tenerife.

Tenerife 7 day weather forecast