The first time i wanted to see the sea in Britanny/Bretagne i could not believe how big the difference between low and high tide there is! At the Black sea coast, there are sometimes 5 cm, here it can be up 5-10 or even 20 meters....I had to walk once more than 5 minutes from the place where the water surface usually is (by high tide) till where it was by low tide.
The village Guérande is famous for its sea salt production - still the old-fashioned way: by hand! All over Western Europe if you sometimes buy/have bought salted butter, most of the time the salt inside is from there:-) The salt evaporation ponds surrounding Guérande is where everything takes place under the sky. The salt concentration from the ocean is 35gr/l, in the ponds it goes down to 300gr/l within 15 days!!!
I was very lucky and happy to be there end of August when is the actual harvesting-time. There are 2 salt products: the "gros sel"(heavy grey salt this one stays at the bottom of the pond) and the "fleur du sel"(salt flower = the light one, that stays at the surface). One salt evaporation pond (with a size of 7x10m) usually brings a harvest of 50-100kg "gros sel" and 2-4 kg "fleur du sel"...
In an age when we are surrounded by organic supermarkets and clothes we can have an organic art too. The proof is the fourth edition of the Kijkduin Organique Dynamique Exposition at the Kijkduin Beach in the Hague, the Netherlands. The art pieces are made partly or 100% from natural materials. They are left on influence of the nature powers wind, rain and sun - from 14th of August till the 20th of September 2009.
This year the creative artists present a flower made out of wood skin and feathers, wooden-metallic triangles and plenty more...
Combine organic art plus a gorgeous sunset and you see the result on the pictures here....
The first time i had visited this expo 2 years ago i was impressed by one of the sculptures. 8 round balls put on the top of each other covered with lentilles, beans and wheat-see below.
