Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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Made with Canon 40D and a 20-40mm if I remember right.
By the salt dams, in Sicily, Italy
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Made with Canon 40D and a 20-40mm if I remember right.
Gary R. Smith
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Classic colors in opposition: blue and gold. Very striking! Can I assume that everything that is not sky or person is actually salt?
Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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Thank you and Yes, Gary, that was our understanding, and right beside here, there were salt dams by the sea. A magnificent place.
Gary R. Smith
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We often spend a few days at the Pacific coast in Seaside, Oregon. There is an historic salt works located in Seaside that was established when the Lewis and Clark expedition set up out there after their journey west in the early 1800's (this is the USA after all, all of our "history" is recent when compared to yours). I suspect this "stove" is a reconstruction since the inside of the firebox looks like concrete. 
We were there one weekend when there was a re-enactment taking place out on the dunes near the beach. They had a large fire going and they were boiling seawater to extract the salt.
We were there one weekend when there was a re-enactment taking place out on the dunes near the beach. They had a large fire going and they were boiling seawater to extract the salt.
Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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Very interesting. In Sicily, they had basins near the sea, and as waves washed over the basins and retracted to the sea, salt was left in the basins. I have images of this as well, near to where this picture was taken.
