Headload of Salt - Ready to Roll - a photo on Flickriver

            Continuing on this heavy and back breaking task of making salt for human consumption from salt water. All set and ready to haul.

Goa is more known for its beaches, tanned flesh, food and carnevale then for its salt. Here right next to Panjim, salt making goes on in the summer months. I guess since no tourists arrive here during that period, no one even mentions the existence of these historic mines which work on the principle of solar evaporation of the saline water that reaches up the Mandovi in the summer.

In Goa, during the months of summer, nothing moves, not even the breeze, it is hot and sultry and almost impossible to think. The famous beaches are not happening as the water is so murky and full of churning that the currents are vicious.

The only activity that seems to occur during this hottest part of the year in Goa is the making of Salt and living life and dreaming of the monsoon to break and bring in the rains. 

The not so solitary workers here aew from the tribal belt near Karwar in Karnataka who seem to be engaged in this hard back breaking  work with a major touch of corrosive impact on the delicate skin from the chlorine.

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Taken on: April 10, 2010

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