Webcam from El Hierro, providing a valley view from Las Puntas.
Philippe Guillaume comes from Tenerife, Canary Islands, and is a passionate diver and photographer. He have an excellent collection of diving photos on Flickr. Many of them taken in the Canary Islands, and even one album with diving photos only from El Hierro.
His photos are an excellent example of the divers paradise that El Hierro is. Many people claim that it is the most interesting scuba diving spot in all of Spain. Because of the nature reserve, a lot of fish species live here, and other ones come here to find food (whales, sharks, dolphins, turtles, etc.).
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They were renewed for the last time in 2006, have two plants with a total of 12 rooms.
It is a place where the guests will be able to enjoy the rest and relax that this island offers.
Room description
The simple rooms of these apartments are decorated with a rustic style. They consist of 1 and 2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bath with all facilities. In addition, the guests be able to enjoy sea views that these apartaments offers from their balconies.
Meal service description
The guests will be able to find a restaurant in the apartments but their services are independent.
Hotel location description
These cosy apartments are in the centric part of the island, in the town of Tigaday. Located in the valley of the Gulf, one of more impressive the natural phenomena of the Canary Islands, these apartments are surrounded by mountains.
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Room description
Each of the welcoming apartments comes with an en suite bathroom with hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, a satellite TV, a kitchen fully equipped, a combined lounge/ bedroom, a separate bedroom and a terrace with sea views.
Sport activities description
Leisure facilities include a swimming pool with parasols and sun loungers laid out ready for use and it is possible to try out tennis, table tennis and darts as well as archery. Mountain bikes may be hired.
Hotel location description
Located 2 km from the nearest beach, this apartment complex is situated above the village of Tigaday and enjoys fabulous views out over the sea, El Golfo Valley, the island of La Palma and the cliffs of El Salmor. Lying just a few minutes walk from the town centre where guests will discover various shops and restaurants (500 m), guests may reach El Hierro Airport on public transport in just 20 minutes.
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The southern area of El Hierro has been declared a World Biosphere Reserve in its totality. Explore the underwater platform of this island, the westernmost of the Canaries, its great wealth of flora and fauna and the special conditions that it has for diving, with high temperatures and good visibility throughout the year. A good climate, peace, safety, hospitality, a variety of scenery and an underwater landscape that you won't forget.
Prepare your equipment and forget about your daily stress for a little while. Here is a guide to some of the dives located around La Restinga.
THE DESERT
Located right on the western edge of the Marine Reserve, this area begins close to the shore with a rocky sea floor covered in seaweed which falls abruptly forming a shelf which is fairly tortuous at little more than ten metres depth.
BAJA ROSARIO
This small tower rises to a height of seven metres depth from a rocky bottom crossed by small tongues of lava, with a few spots of sand and on which there are numerous blocks of stone.
EL SALTO
The tongue of lava which forms the Punta del Salto continues under the sea and descends progressively until it is confused with the surrounding rocky sea floor.
TACORÓN
A peaceful and entertaining dive opposite the natural swimming pool of Tacorón.
BAJA LOS CAMELLOS
The Tower hardly appears above the water at high tide and it rises from a sea bottom at a depth of seven metres in which black sand with the odd rock predominates.
LA CUEVA DEL DIABLO
This dive is next to a rocky cliff, the location of the "Cueva del Diablo", a very well-known cave that you can swim into or even enter in a small boat if the tide is right.
PUNTA LAJIAL
In this area, the rocky sea bottom has a pronounced slope which is pretty homogeneous running from a depth of about ten metres to over forty metres.
PUNTA LAS CAÑAS
Located on the western edge of the buffer zone, the dive begins on a fat area which becomes steeper as you move away from the coast.
LA HERRADURA
An excellent dive very close to La Restinga. The bottom is made up of ravines and elevations which alternate and serve as the stage for an abundant fsh fauna.
EL BAJÓN
This tower of rock which rises from the bottom at a depth of close to 100 metres is, in its own right, one of the myths of diving on El Hierro.
ARENAS BLANCAS
This dive, which is comfortable and shallow, is next to the breakwater on a sandy bottom on which great slabs of eroded rock form wide shelves which serve as a refuge for the local fauna.
PORT OF LA RESTINGA
A nocturnal dive on which it is possible to see anything from small crustaceans to large spiny butterfy rays.
EL RINCÓN
This dive starts just where the breakwater of the mole joins the rocky shelf of Punta Restinga. It is generally the most sheltered and tranquil of all those that are done on this shelf above all if there is a current.
EL ARCO
A deep dive in the most exposed area of Punta Restinga so it is only recommended for divers of a certain level and when there is no current.
EL VERIL
This dive is located on the same shelf as El Arco. Although these are contiguous dives, it is not a good idea to do them on a single occasion as the depth prevents such a long route if you stop for a moment to enjoy it.
EL RÍO
This dive is located on the opposite side of Punta Restinga from El Rincón. You go down less than ten metres and then go deeper across a number of bars of stone and contiguous ravines in which the trumpet fish are plentiful.
PUNTA DEL RÍO
Contiguous with El Río, in this area you go down progressively along a tongue of lava which borders on its eastern side with a light-coloured sandy sea bottom.
HOYOS DEL FEO
You take a ravine towards the west of the boat which gets deeper and in which you can see a number of tropical club-tipped sea anemones with small prawns.
PUNTA MIRADERO
You go down a slope of sand and stones until you come to a fairly fat shelf on the upper part but which has a kind of step with a cave of medium size beneath a depth of twenty-fve metres.
BAJA BOCARONES
With its most superfcial part at about ten metres, the baja is a high tower of stone crowned by an irregular profle and standing on a sandy slope which reaches more than forty metres depth on the side of the open sea.
PIEDRA BERMEJA
The normal thing is to begin the dive on the interior face of the rocks, which are very close to the coast; then you move over a foor of sand and stones towards the rocks, going around them.
BARCO CHINO
Despite its name, this is not a wreck. The name refers to a Korean fishing boat which ran aground on the coast decades ago and of which there is now hardly a sign. This is a relaxing and easy dive.
ROQUE LAMAR
We anchor the boat in the lee of a shallow bay and go down the steep, rocky sea foor on which there are two long towers oriented towards the open sea.
PLAYA BRAVA
From the little cove where we anchor you can go to a rocky seabed at a depth of up to twenty to twenty-five metres.
Source: El Hierro Travel
Photo: Philippe Guillaume
CLUB DE BUCEO HIERRO-SUB
Address: Carretera Las Playas, 8
Locality: Las Playas
Telephone: +34 922 550 482 Fax: +34 922 550 482
hierro-sub.iespana.es
e-mail: hierro_sub@yahoo.es
CENTRO DE BUCEO EL HIERRO
Address: C/ El Rancho, 12 esq. C/ El Carmen, 13
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone/Fax: +34 922 557 023
www.centrodebuceoelhierro.com
e-mail: info@centrodebuceoelhierro.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO ACUASCUBA - EL SUBMARINO
Address: Avda. Marítima, 2
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone: +34 922 557 075 /+34 686 137 633
www.elsubmarinobuceo.com
e-mail: info@elsubmarinobuceo.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO ARRECIFAL
Address: C/ La Orchilla, 30
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone: +34 922 557 171 /+34 696 617 201
www.arrecifal.com
e-mail: info@arrecifal.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO MERIDIANO CERO
Address: C/ La Orchilla, 19
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone:+34 922 557 076 /+34 620 948 533
Fax: +34 922 557 159
e-mail: meridianocero@hotmail.es
CENTRO DE BUCEO EL TAMBORIL
Address: C/ La Ola, 4
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone:+34 922 557 184 /+34 679 181 594 /+34 609 814 823
www.eltamboril.com
e-mail: eltamboril@eltamboril.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO BENTHOS
Address: C/ La Caracola, 1 Bajo
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone: 922 557519
www.benthosbuceo.com
e-mail: info@benthosbuceo.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO FAN DIVING
Dirección: C/ El Varadero,4
Localidad: La Restinga
Tf: 922 557 085
www.el-hierro-tauchen.de
e-mail: fandiving@el-hierro-tauchen.de
CENTRO DE BUCEO FRONSUB
Address: C/ Tigaday, 11
Locality: Frontera
Telephone: +34 685 108 305 / +34 922 552 022 / +34 660 692 214
e-mail: fronsub@gmail.com
fronsub@hotmail.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO LA RESTINGA DIVING
Address: C/ Juan Gutierrez Monteverde,21
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone:+34 922 557 167 /+34 691 269 907
www.buceolarestinga.com
e-mail: info@buceolarestinga.com
CENTRO DE BUCEO TAXI DIVER
Address: Avda. Marítima, 4
Locality: La Restinga
Telephone:+34 822 104 069 /+34 626 789 205
www.elhierrotaxidiver.com
e-mail: info@elhierrotaxidiver.com
Source: El Hierro Travel
Photo: Philippe Guillaume
Popular restaurants in El Hierro:
La Vieja Pandorga - La Restinga - Cuisines: Spanish
Asador Artero - Frontera - Cuisines: Spanish
Restaurante El Refugio - La Restinga - Cuisines: Seafood
Casa Guiana - Valverde - Good for: Bar scene
Casa Goyo - Valverde
Bar-Restaurante Bohemia - Valverde
Maria Alicia Gonzalez Lueje - Valverde
La Igualdad de San Andres - Valverde
Tenecebra SL. - Valverde
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