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| Salt being loaded by conveyor belt from the salt pan |
When we visited Great Inagua in the Bahamas, we toured Morton’s Salt Works, which is the third largest salt work in the world. They harvest the salt by pushing sea water into shallow salt pans with an Archimedes screw.
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| Saltwater being pushed into the canals. |
Then, when it dries up and becomes salt, trucks take it away to be cleaned, and then it is put in immense salt piles until it is loaded onto a freighter by a conveyer belt. This whole process takes about 7 months.
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| Waiting for a freighter |
Pink flamingoes also live here, and they eat the pink brine shrimp that live in the salt pans. Since the flamingoes eat them, they turn pink as well.
Cooper and Cole,
ReplyDeleteA fascinating blog entry, since we spent 5 days anchored off the salt factory there waiting for better weather on our way home. We did not do the tour. Very cool about the flamingos, did you get any photos of them?