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Tenerife is the largest and most populous island in the Canary Islands. Approximately 43% of the archipelago's population resides on the island. Tenerife is also a huge tourist destination, hosting about 5 million visitors annually. That makes it the most visited island in the archipelago and one of Spain's most important tourist destinations. Click here to see part 1 of the Tenerife posts. 

Pretty Scenics while traveling around the island.

It was a cloudy day, and we dodged rainstorms throughout.

The same image reimagined as an oil painting.

Vineyard on a slope

The road from town down to the sea

Garden closeup 

Travel Break menu

A storm coming in

Views from the highway 

Auditorio De Tenerife, next to the ocean

And in the category of unusual and strange ships we saw, we present the Floatel Reliance docked in Santa Crus de Tenerife port harbor.


It is a semi-submersible accommodation and construction support vessel (floatel) designed for worldwide operation with an emphasis on mid-harsh environmental conditions in the world, such as the southern North Sea. Basically, it is a floating hotel that can be moored to support seagoing operations such as oil rigs. Floatel Reliance accommodates 500 people in one, two, and four-bed cabins and has large recreational areas, including mess and day rooms, a gymnasium, an internet café, and a cinema. The vessel has a telescopic gangway for client personnel to transfer between the floatel and the host installation. A helideck, two deck cranes, a large lay-down area, workshops/ warehouses support the client’s logistics, construction, and storage activities.

While designed for harsh environments, it has been in the mild-weather harbor since 2016, when it was brought in for repairs. It is now used primarily by the audiovisual industry as a location prop in filmmaking.


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Tenerife, Spain
06/21/24