Despite the grim name — currents once carried shipwrecked sailors here — this is one of Spain's most beautiful beaches: a kilometre of pale pebbles and glass-clear water below the volcanic hills of Cabo de Gata. The twenty-minute path down from the viewpoint is rough and shadeless, and there are no facilities at all. Bring everything, take everything away, swim endlessly.
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