The summer is doing its best

to provide sunshine wherever it's needed and we on Gran Canaria fortunately have plenty of it. The Red Cross organizes from this monday till mid september and initiative to help handicaped people enjoy the beach as much as we do. The "leisure at the beach program" gives people with mobility problems the oportunity to take walk at the shore or a dip of the 'Las Canteras' beach in Las Palmas.

For those living in Las Palmas the program includes a "pick-up service" in the morning for those who need it and then from 11:30 till 16:30, several volunteers will help take care of them. Other activities are planed too, swapping the seashore with visits to different places of Gran Canaria.

Now that is one good news i think. Great guys!!

Hi there,



I'm back again :D yeeaayy!! hahaha

I have been very busy the last months and I just wanted to start over again with some good news.



Therefore, here I go. The 'port of Mogan' and the 'Amadores beach', both in the municipality of Mogan, have been awarded once again with the so called "blue flag", which is given by the 'Federation for Environmental Education' for excelcent quality, cleanliness, accessibility and security of their waters and beaches.



The other "blueflagged" beaches on Gran Canaria are: the 'Las Canteras' beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the 'Melenara' beach in Telde and the beaches of 'San Agustín', 'Playa del Inglés' and 'Maspalomas' in San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

The other "blueflagged" ports are: the port of 'Pasito Blanco' in the municipality of San Bartolomé de

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Don't get alarmed tonight,

if the entire island seems to be submerged in chaos with bonfires everywhere. We are neither under attack nor have been hit by a meteor shower. :P ;)
If you don't have nothing to do tonight, i higly recomend you wherever you are on the isle, but specially those near to the Playa del Ingles (San Bartolomé) and the Canteras (Las Palmas) beaches to visit these beaches around 12:00 PM.

Like every year in june, normally coinciding with days around the summer solstice, the night of the 23rd to 24th, we celebrate "San Juan". In this peculiar festivity there is a large fireworks spectacle and people make huge bonfires almost everywhere but the biggest are seen at the beaches. This was originally made to "strengthen the sun", since the days will get shorter every day ...

Yesterday night,

at 12:00 PM i got a tip from a "source" i have telling me a light plane was at the beach of Playa del Águila at the south of the isle. I drove over there and to my surprise i saw a floatplane being pulled out of the water by the firemen. Specifically it was Lake Seawolf Renegade.

The pilot was forced to land on the water after using up all hise fuel. Aparently hedid nothing wrong beside that, since he had all his documents in order, but then police found out that he had thrown out the plane several bales of cocain. The 40 year old uruguayan pilot, who said he came from the Sahara, was initially set free last night, but was aprehended this morning with a few carafes of kerosene, in order to refill the planes' tanks and flee

Police has retrieved several bales one of ...

It's been now,

3 months since the 7 year old Yeremi Vargas disappeared in the municipality of Santa Lucia but he still hasn't been forgotten. Now, the security councillor of Santa Lucia has started an initiative to try to find him once again, but this time he intents to search in every well known in this municipality.

He thinks that, as the other searched places haven't given any positive results, maybe he could have fallen into a well and hasn't been found for that reason.

I don't mean to sound cruel, but i think if this kid hasn't been found yet and no one has demanded a ransom, he'd be possibly either dead or very far away. Let's hope it's the second option.