Tuesday

 The rucksacks are packed and we've planned an early start in order to have a long day up in the Teide National Park. Up at 7am, breakfast by 7-45, and down to the bus station for the bus to El Portillo only to be told that the journey has been cancelled due to bad weather. Although it's misty up on Teide it looks no worse than earlier in the week - but when the mist clears for a moment we see quite a lot of snow on the peak. We return to the hotel, Geoff does some Potfest planning and I go down to the internet shop to suss out and book a hotel on the S.W. coast at Las Playas de Americas for our last 3 nights - the weather is often better in the S.West and we're hoping to get into the Teide National Park from that side. At 12 we head off out along the coast for a walk as the weather is now sunny at coast level though still very grey and misty up high. We redo the first day's walk, tag some more on the end and then reverse it back to Puerto.

Precarious steps, followed by a scramble down a rock face to get to the beach

View back towards Puerta de la Cruz

Passed by a large herd of goats just off the coast path

Our first proper view of Mt Teide, snow covered at dusk.