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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanMar 22, 10 Comments Off
 Salty Smile Good evening one and all. I worked all day but had a fun little adventure to the salt ponds directly after work today. Yesterday when I did the loop around the salt pond on my bike I noticed these very cool tires encrusted in fresh salt crystals and knew I had to get back there tonight because if we get any rain at all they will be destroyed. Well for once I had some company, two of our new Dutch interns Loet and Laura really wanted to go as well so I had them meet me near the prison and off we went, me on my bike and them walking. After a fun and scenic hike along the waters edge which took around 15 minutes we finally arrived at the salt pans. One of the first things I found was this fun salty tire face that you see here made entirely of old tires encrusted in sea salt. Normally these tires are underwater but it’s so dry now that everything is starting to dry up. Once these tires or anything else that is in this water is exposed to air you immediately get salt crystals, look in front and around the big tire you can see thousands of little salt cubes forming under the water, it’s too cool for words. The girls and I raced all around for around 40 minutes finding one interesting thing after another to photograph, it’s just a perfect time to go there and you can even see around 100 or so flamingos as well. The downside is you have to get in the water to get most of the fun shots and this is 100% salt water and folks it burns your feet like you can’t imagine, it’s like acid! I made the mistake tonight of stepping in a very soft area and sunk in up to my knee, it was pure black smelly mud underneath the salt crystals and I raced back to my bike and grabbed my water bottles to rinse off with, really disgusting! So other than the smelly mud it was a lot of fun, I may try and go back Thursday evening as well for one last look.
That’s about it, we had a very windy, dry day and big waves smashed the coast all day. I’m out, till tomorrow, Barry
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