Caleta de Fuste 35 years ago | Caleta and Fuerteventura in 1987

Caleta de Fuste 35 years ago | Caleta and Fuerteventura in 1987

35 years ago I had my first holiday in Fuerteventura and videoed it (on my huge VHS video camera). I hope people will enjoy seeing what Fuerteventura in the 80s was like.

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Caleta was very small then, although growing rapidly. We spent two weeks in a little bungalow on the Cay Beach Villas complex (probably called something different then). The swimming pool in the Castillo Beach Bungalows opened while we were there so we also used that.

The only shops and restaurants were in the now demolished square by the Castillo tower. There were about three restaurants and a couple of shops so there was little choice.

There were no hotels apart from the Barcelo by the harbour, no golf courses and Chipmunk mountain was just an empty hill.

Fortunately I had hired a car so we travelled around and found the lovely beaches near Corralejo and Jandia. Otherwise I probably would never have come back to Fuerteventura as the Caleta beach was just as bad as it is these days.

You can also see the airport as it was then. When we arrived I remember that the luggage carousels weren't yet working so we had to claim our bags out the front of the terminal from the little baggage "train". I may have some more old home movies 80's style somewhere.

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