Water Sports
Neither Tenerife nor La Gomera have many natural beaches along their rocky coastlines, but to satisfy the tourist appetite, a few have been made on Tenerife using imported sand from the Sahara. The beaches of the popular southern resorts Las Americas and Los Cristianos tend to be crowded affairs with neat, cramped rows of sun loungers and sunshades. Various water sports are offered off these beaches - mostly motorized sports such as jet-skiing or motorboating, or at least being towed by a motorized craft on water skis, a huge inflatable banana or attached to a parachute. A variety of barriers alongside the island's artificial beaches, there to prevent the sands being washed away, have reduced the sea to a rather dull and wave-free lapping mass. Elsewhere along the coast though, the sea has a very different personality, with powerful swells, huge Atlantic rollers and strong currents, particularly in the north, where swimming is often treacherous and the appearance of red flags common. For safer swimming, resorts in this part of the island generally provide man-made bathing pools, many of which are only accessible at low tide - including the unique pools in Garachico, which have been hollowed out of lava flows
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