A walk around Lobos Island

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The small island of Lobos is located in the strait between Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, but closer to Fuerte (2 kilometres only). It looks quite small.

The boats to Los Lobos run from Corralejo in the north of Fuerteventura, and you can also get there from Lanzarote, but there are only a couple of boats a day, while here there are more than a dozen.
Corralejo is one of the main villages of the island. It is located at the foot of a mountain with a picturesque crater.

Although Corralejo is a tourist village, it has its own face.

The mountain is not really high, about 120 metres above sea level, and of course it is an extinct volcano. Los Lobos was formed about 50,000 years ago. However, it doesn't seem to have changed much since then. Most of the island is taken up by what the locals call "malpais", which is this kind of volcanic "nuisance", "bad land".

The pier where the boat arrives is not presentable.

Los Lobos is a national park with several walking paths. It is not allowed to walk anywhere, but no one checks it.

The island is small, I ran around it in 50 minutes without rushing and making stops for photos.

Tourist paths along which inquisitive tourists walk, but there are few signs explaining what is here and how. Some of the paths go through "mal pais" (lava fields, as the locals call them).

Part along the sea.

In the centre of the island is a sandy lowland, where sometimes even vegetation can be found.

One sign for tourists reported that over 130 species of plants live on the island, but they seem to be very good at hiding.

Once upon a time, people lived here. There were a few, but they're gone.

All the curious tourists actually go to the northern tip of Los Lobos to see the lighthouse.

I thought the view from here would be spectacular on Lanzarote. But somehow the view was not so mesmerising.

Much cooler was the view of Los Lobos itself.

There is a small freshwater lake at the foot of the hill with the lighthouse.

It must have been very valuable to the islanders.
The lighthouse was built in 1860. Since then, the people who maintained the lighthouse have lived here. The profession was called by the beautiful word "farero". But in 1968 the lighthouse became automatic and since then nobody lives here anymore.

The third attraction of the island is the beach Playa de la Concha. The weather was not very favourable for swimming, but most of the tourists who came to the island chose to stay here.

But the main place where visitors to the island focused was the village. People still live there. According to official information, there are 4 permanent residents on the island.

There are more people in the village, but probably some of them come here to work, and the job is to cater for and entertain the day-trippers coming from Fuerte and Lanzarote.
It seems to be possible to rent an apartment here and spend the night in huts like this.

The village is located in an amazingly beautiful bay, protected from the ocean by a peninsula and a small island.

You can eat here. There is no choice of food, it takes about an hour to order. You just come in and say, "I'd like three portions of food". They write down your name and it takes a really long time to cook.

All in all, Los Lobos is nice. I'd go again.

We have to climb the mountain some more, and there is a fancy surfer's beach somewhere under the mountain. On the way back to Corralejo, we took a boat with some guys who had come there with boards to surf. All tanned and surfing.

Near the pier there is a bust of the only famous resident of these places - the writer Josephine Pla.