Easily accessible by a 50-minute ferry ride from southern tip of Lanzarote, we spent a day on the island Fuerteventura, arriving during a political reception for the Spanish Minister of Defense. 

The alertness of the crowd drew our attention initially, but when we noticed the military brigade wearing what looked like black plastic trowels on their heads, we thought Monty Python was filming in town.

We found a tourist mini-tram to assist in our escape from the event and toured the town of Corralejo until we could find place to eat.  We lunched a waterfront cafe and decided to explore beyond the cinderbox condos to see their famous wind-swept Sahara sand dunes.  Outside of the villages, the island appeared rather deserted... miles of sand dunes with no end in sight. 

At some beaches, a walk across the dunes from the road to the ocean could take nearly 45 minutes.  But on this island, who's in a hurry?

With an island with more sand that development, sand art is quite the popular attraction.  Isn't this more interesting than a sand castle ~ Sand art on Playa de Corralejo.  The rarity of rain on this island allows these sculptures to remain as one of this town's main attractions, until someone demolishes for the next design.

Besides hiking in the sand dunes, we learned that there are plenty of sports available for visitors such as diving, windsurfing, surfing, deep-sea fishing, jet skiing and glass-bottom boat tours and plenty of amusements to shell out money for entertainment.   We skipped all that and took the next ferry back to Lanzarote.
 

We cannot fairly offer our take on the best and worst of this island since we only spent one day here.  But let us say... sand, sand and more sand.

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