Author: tamesa212020

The story doesn’t begin almost 40 years ago when Costa Calma was being built, before it used to look like this……. not a hotel in sight, not even a little fishing village, pretty much desert from coast to coast. It doesn’t begin 700 years or so ago when the French man Jean de Bethencourt first… Read more

This is just one of the spectacular lava dykes that are visible along the beach, a popular sheltered sunbathing spot on the H10 beach. Red hot magma under extreme pressure finds a weak spot in the existing rock and forces it’s way through. Most of the time it will reach the surface but sometimes it… Read more

Volcanic bombs! What are they? They are not dropped from the sky, but thrown with immense force from a volcanic event. These ‘bombs’ can be as small as a walnut or as big as a small car! Imagine the force that can rip out a chunk of rock from the volcanic vent and sling it… Read more