Playa de Cofete.

Playa de Cofete is a sand-bottom beachbreak occupying the northern end of an isolated 12km crescent on Fuerteventura's seldom-visited southwest coast. Shifting left and right peaks break over a well-covered sandy floor and run for 50-100m at a medium pace with a crumbly, steep face that rewards cutbacks rather than barrel hunting. The wave welling up off deeper water means it rarely goes completely flat but equally rarely achieves hollow, powerful form. Best conditions arrive on smaller 0.9-1.8m NW swells when the peaks become peakier and better organised; larger swells tend to overwhelm the beach, turning it into a messy closeout swept by fierce longshore drift. A south-easterly or sirocco wind is the essential ingredient for clean faces, as the prevailing trade winds blow onshore and ruin shape the rest of the time. The mini headland at the northern boundary separates Cofete from Playa Barlovento to the northeast.

Shifting peaks across twelve kilometres where sirocco winds sculpt the crumbly face.