Archipelago of salt

Cagliari, my home town, is surrounded by two large coastal lagoons, one at south-east and the other one at north-west. In both lagoons salt evaporation ponds have been built since ancient times. Those ponds offer a good opportunity for interesting photos, so in the past I’ve visited the south-east ones several times and posted my photos in TE (you can find one of them here too). But those salt evaporation ponds, which were managed by the government, are no more functioning and so no salt can be found.

 

I wanted to visit the other ones which are a private enterprise and are still in function but I found the gate closed. So turned my attention to the lagoon around them, where the water is salty too and where the salt gets accumulated naturally.

 

So what you see here are natural salt deposits in the lagoon that encircles the real salt evaporation ponds of Contivecchi. These deposits seem very old, the shallow water evaporates in summer leaving the salt deposits mixed with the mud of the natural lagoon. Then in winter they are submerged again.

 

(For more photos of the salt evaporation ponds of Cagliari see the dedicated album - in the link here below at right)

 

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