According to weather forecast, the Sun should shine today all day and we wanted to finally drive in the North of the island. On a tiny street you can ride up along on the crater rim of the Caldera de Taburiente to the Observatory. Even if the weather forecast once again slightly in addition was, could we see much of the Green and bizarre landscape.

Thanks to the clear sky, the Canary Islands are ideal for observation of outer space. The Observatory of the “Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias” is on La Palma since 1985.

Unser Auto parkten wir sehr angemessen auf einem der Hubschrauberlandeplätze 🙂

On the way back we passed la Zarza, where one archaeological finds from the time of the Benahoares (Natives of La Palma) can visit. The petroglyphs (Spirals, Circles and meander) have survived up to the present time and were following the discovery 1941 an archaeological sensation. Their importance is but still completely unclear.

For the evening Ronni had come up with something special for us: a night dive. Dietmar had already tried the night diving on Madeira and was excited. I was still somewhat suspicious, but I try it anyway.

So we stood against nine o'clock in the evening in full gear on the dark Beach. Each equipped with two flashlights. It was already a funny feeling, to get into the dark water. Somehow the whole underwater world seemed much more closely than in daylight. Very creepy, I found the many sea urchins, When night her rock crevices, leave and go wandering. But not only the sea-urchins are nocturnal, so we saw a large, Red Octopus, a feisty, small stingrays, a large Burrfish and many other sea creatures. After an hour we were again full and with full gear on the beach. I had not expected that, aber das machen wir bestimmt bald wieder 🙂

On the way back to the base we have scared sure a few walkers to death. On the day, you will often astonished look look, If you with the complete diving equipment on foot in the direction of water are. At night it is but again much more extreme if the “Neoprene Monster” durch die Straßen schleichen 🙂