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title: "A grand day out: ACAP goes to sea off Tenerife"
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# A grand day out: ACAP goes to sea off Tenerife

Yesterday, attendees at ACAP's Fifth Session of its Meeting of Parties ([MoP5](http://www.acap.aq/en/documents/meeting-of-the-parties/mop5)) being held this week in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands took the day off from their deliberations for a field trip out to sea. The ACAP Information Officer participated and took some photographs of the day's events.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/Bird_books.jpg) 

 Was that a gull or a dove?  Mark Tasker, Øystein Størkersen, Ken Morgan and Rob Crawford consult their bird books before embarking

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/Nashira_Uno.jpg) 

 We saw [Short-finned Pilot Whales](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-finned_pilot_whale) *Globicephala macrorhynchus *and [Common Bottle-nosed Dolphins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bottlenose_dolphin) *Tursiops truncatus *close up from the [*Nashira Uno*](http://whalesanddolphinsoftenerife.org/boats/boat-nashirauno.html) out of the marina of [Los Gigantes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Gigantes) 

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/cliffs.jpg)

 Blue sky, blue water and the 500-m black cliffs [Acantilados de Los Gigantes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantilados_de_Los_Gigantes)** **near the western-most point of Tenerife

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/Marcelo_Garcia_Mugil_cephalus.jpg)

 Fish Whisperer!  Marcelo Garcia of Chile catches a [Flathead Grey Mullet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flathead_grey_mullet) *Mugil cephalus* in the marina with his bare hands (and a tomato roll)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/Marcel_Garcia_Mark_Tasker.jpg)

 After the boat cruise Marcelo Garcia and Mark Tasker forego an ice cream for the ATM queue

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/Red_bus.jpg)

 Up, up and up in our shiny red bus...

  ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Meetings/Mount_Teide_3718m.jpg)

  ...to be rewarded with a stunning view of [Mount Teide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide), at 3718 m Tenerife's (and Spain's) highest point and a volcano that last erupted in 1909.  It forms the centre of the [Parque Nacional del Teide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park), a [World Heritage Site](http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1258) inscribed in 2007. 

 With grateful thanks to the session's Spanish hosts for arranging the day's events that were enjoyed by all.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 08 May 2015 *