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Dolphins and the tropical species of Pilot Whales are easy to watch in Tenerife, Palma, Gomera or El Hierro.

It's worth noting that La Gomera is quite far from the more western islands: Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.

Visitors staying on those islands might need to plan their La Gomera visit ahead of traveling to the canaries.

Some other interesting bit, the islands have lots of deep canyons, so the inhabitants of la gomera have invented a whistling language, to communicate.

Damn I need to visit La Gomera one time, I spent 2 months on Tenerife, but didn't visit it even once.

I spend a lot of time on La Gomera (closest island to Tenerife, about 30 km away) and actually love the sand there.

>He set off from La Gomera in the Canary Islands on 6 April, but returned after concerns about his boat’s seaworthiness.

I've flown between Tenerife and La Gomera and El Hiero a few times - I was curious if they did the inter island flights, which I don't think they do.

ON Gomera they also have experimental mist nests which aim to emulate the trees by causing moisture in the air to condensate which is then collected into gutter at the base of the nets.

On Gomera the "fog forest" is providing a major part of water for the island.

FTA: "He set off from La Gomera in the Canary Islands on 6 April, but returned after concerns about his boat’s seaworthiness.

The entry for 9 Aug 1492 says: > The Admiral says that many honourable Spaniards, inhabitants of the island of Hierro, swore that they were on Gomera with Dofia Inez Peraza, mother of Guillen Peraza, who was afterward the first Count of Gomera, and that each year they saw land to the west of the Canaries "Many" is not helpful, but at least a few hundred people on the island?

We were one of the first boats to visit the new marina in La Gomera.

As it were, I've actually spent around a year on the small island of La Gomera, where Silbo Gomero comes from.

Not in this study, but the actual article, linked at the bottom, does refer to an earlier study on the whistled language of La Gomera.