Damien Enright: No first light on island as dust storm rages over Canaries

Exhibition piece of a typical five-metres long, one-man La Gomera fishing boat lifted from its plinth and overturned by the ferocious Calima wind from Africa which hit the Canary Islands in recent weeks.

ON SUNDAY morning two weeks ago, while I read reports in newspapers from all over the world of the ‘Calima’ of dust storms from Africa then obscuring images of the Canary Island in photographs taken from outer space, those very storms were happening outside my first-floor window.