Beware of the Rock Stackers when you're in Tenerife and don't become one because apparently the Tenerifean gendarmes may imprison you for the offense.
Here's one example:
Easter Island has some cool figures but Tenerife has more of them, many more.
Maybe proximity of the water gets people thinking in a more technicolor way and here's another rock family, this time with multi-colored rocks:
Apparently the rock stacking happens when anyone achieves some goal as in maybe completing a pilgrimage or some such. From the pics, we see a whole lot of pilgrims must have wound up in Tenerife but we leave it to the interested student to discover how they got there when Tenerife is well-isolated off the West coast of Africa.
You may recall Tenerife as being the site of the worst aeroplane crash in history where two 747s collided and almost everyone aboard both of them was killed. After all this time, I learned yesterday the crash was attributed to pilot error since the landing pilot did not wait for the final clearance to put the aircraft on the runway.
We don't want to dwell on that historical horror since there were other things learned today about the island. It may not be surprising to hear it's possessed of an enormous volcano which is the highest point in Spain and that's relevant since Tenerife has some type of colonial arrangement with that country.
Although Tenerife is well south of Spain and seemingly close to the Equator, apparently it experiences European seasons. That sounds like it must include snow which seems highly unusual but so it was related to me.
Maybe the most novel idea is banana wine and some of you are aficionados for whom that may be a stomach-churning concept but a bottle is said to sell for about ten euros while a bottle of a good red wine can be had for about three euros. Disgusting as it may sound, people seem to favor it.
You're not really happening in the world unless you're the source of a potential Disaster Which Will Kill Us All and Tenerife makes the cut. It's part of the Canary Islands and there's some type of large volcanic 'shelf,' a substantial lava buildup which is underwater around the islands. Every few years we have yet another pronouncement about it and we're advised when it breaks there will be a tidal wave which will wipe out the entire Eastern seaboard, life as we know it, and we are so screwed.
I've heard that story many times over years but, thus far, nary a tidal wave. Your mileage may vary.
Note: there's a similar shelf around Hawaii but nary a tidal wave report from that source either. If these shelves ever do break then there will be a cataclysmic consequence but there doesn't seem any way to make a prediction of when it could happen.
Here's one example:
Easter Island has some cool figures but Tenerife has more of them, many more.
Maybe proximity of the water gets people thinking in a more technicolor way and here's another rock family, this time with multi-colored rocks:
Apparently the rock stacking happens when anyone achieves some goal as in maybe completing a pilgrimage or some such. From the pics, we see a whole lot of pilgrims must have wound up in Tenerife but we leave it to the interested student to discover how they got there when Tenerife is well-isolated off the West coast of Africa.
You may recall Tenerife as being the site of the worst aeroplane crash in history where two 747s collided and almost everyone aboard both of them was killed. After all this time, I learned yesterday the crash was attributed to pilot error since the landing pilot did not wait for the final clearance to put the aircraft on the runway.
We don't want to dwell on that historical horror since there were other things learned today about the island. It may not be surprising to hear it's possessed of an enormous volcano which is the highest point in Spain and that's relevant since Tenerife has some type of colonial arrangement with that country.
Although Tenerife is well south of Spain and seemingly close to the Equator, apparently it experiences European seasons. That sounds like it must include snow which seems highly unusual but so it was related to me.
Maybe the most novel idea is banana wine and some of you are aficionados for whom that may be a stomach-churning concept but a bottle is said to sell for about ten euros while a bottle of a good red wine can be had for about three euros. Disgusting as it may sound, people seem to favor it.
You're not really happening in the world unless you're the source of a potential Disaster Which Will Kill Us All and Tenerife makes the cut. It's part of the Canary Islands and there's some type of large volcanic 'shelf,' a substantial lava buildup which is underwater around the islands. Every few years we have yet another pronouncement about it and we're advised when it breaks there will be a tidal wave which will wipe out the entire Eastern seaboard, life as we know it, and we are so screwed.
I've heard that story many times over years but, thus far, nary a tidal wave. Your mileage may vary.
Note: there's a similar shelf around Hawaii but nary a tidal wave report from that source either. If these shelves ever do break then there will be a cataclysmic consequence but there doesn't seem any way to make a prediction of when it could happen.
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