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Once a day, as the sun drops behind the crowded southern coast of Tenerife, a single ferry carrying only a handful of foreign tourists departs from a quiet port dwarfed by the resort-laden coastline.

While protests against mass tourism rage on neighbouring islands, El Hierro – the wildest and most westerly of the Canary Islands – has quietly chosen to do things very differently. I had only been ...