Drone images show vast and vibrant pink salt marsh lakes and mountains of harvested unrefined sea salt. The marshes are located in Camargue, Alpes Côte d'Azur, France and when viewed from the air show off their pink hue.
Olivier Jarry-Lacombe, 43 said, “These photos highlight the incredibly colourful salt marshes as well as the gigantic piles of salt harvested in the marshes of Camargue. The salt workers are busy harvesting the tons of salt formed by the evaporation...
more »Drone images show vast and vibrant pink salt marsh lakes and mountains of harvested unrefined sea salt. The marshes are located in Camargue, Alpes Côte d'Azur, France and when viewed from the air show off their pink hue.
Olivier Jarry-Lacombe, 43 said, “These photos highlight the incredibly colourful salt marshes as well as the gigantic piles of salt harvested in the marshes of Camargue. The salt workers are busy harvesting the tons of salt formed by the evaporation of water in the settling tanks under the effect of the sun.”
“On the Mediterranean coast, salt has always been an important economic resource. Over the centuries, many farms have developed. These days the uses of salt are vastly varied from food, agriculture, and raw materials for the chemical industry.”
“In Camargue, salt is very widely present in the soil and the nature of the very flat and clayey terrain, dotted with ponds, is particularly well suited to the extraction of sea salt. It is also the region where evaporation is the most intense and rainfall is the lowest.”
“The colours vary from pale pink to dark brown depending on the volume of algae present in the water. To survive in this harsh and high salinity environment, it develops biological defence mechanisms.”
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