Hi all 👋🏻

Today I want to share with you all a selection of photographs I took of the Salt flats of Tenefé - Salinas de Tenefé in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria 🇪🇸

This is also my entry into the POBphotocontest of this week: SQUARES
Hosted by @friendlymoose

I was #exploring this Spanish #island of Gran Canaria in October 2017.
It was a nice day, until the skies changed and got #moody… but you may know by now, I love moody photographs 😎 and it is extra special to see moody skies of Spain than the always bright blue and sunny photographs 😉 don’t you think?

All photos are taken with my (late) #Canon eos 550D with 18 - 135 mm lens.

The location of the salt flats you can find on Google maps here, see the yellow star ⭐️:
Zooming out see the yellow arrow:

Here you see the entire island 🏝
As we entered we saw this sign:

It states:
”The Salinas del Tenefé are one of the best examples of mud salt flats that are preserved on the island. To its high ethnographic and architectural interest is added its location in an environment of high natural and historical value, with the presence of an exceptional coastal salt flat and archeological remains, revealing a cultural landscape of remarkable importance.

These clay salt pans, so called for the use of mud for the manufacture of deposits for salt cultivation, were built in the 16th century and until the middle of the 20th century were linked to the salting industry of the fisheries of the Canarian-Saharan fishing bank. Currently they are only used for island consumption, giving different types of salt qualities with different destinations, emphasising the salt or of high culinary value. Its production cycle ranges from March to October.”

Let’s have a look around the salt production:

As we enter the area of the salt flats we see… SQUARES!
Nicely man made squares in literally every direction.
And they are truly big… I show you later on, were a person walks along them.
Looking closer by… you see the colours of the salt.

The salt is every shade of pink /salmon 🥰🌸
When we look back towards the inland, we see a big dark cloud forming.
Beautiful… do you see the airplane?
Let’s look even closer at the salt… details… 😁😎
As the sea 🌊 water disappears due to the sun… salt remains in the squares 🤓
A beautiful colour, and I tasted this salt. It is delicious. We took some home.
A very close up of the salt 😁
Looking around and wandering through different parts.
The moody sky still there.
Wandering a bit further, we see different parts of the area… more SQUARES!
A bit further we look back.
Every square and area has a different level of were the salt is at. Some are flooded, some are dried out and the salt can be collected, and everything in between.
More details…
At the end we reach the sea 🌊 and we see shore birds looking for food.
And a lock for getting water to the flats.
Looking further over the island and beaches…
Wandering back we see a worker checking some salt flats. See now you can see how big they truly are.

Do you see him?
Maybe now… 😉
Walking over a path back to were we came from.
We reach the salt flats again.

Last look inland to see what the weather is doing… beautiful view I think 😎

And that’s all for today, join me in my next posts for more #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻 Even some #artworks once in a while will come by 🎨
Thank you so much for looking, and reading. And if you liked my post, an upvote or re-blog is always welcome 🙏🏻

Have a great day all 😎👋🏻
Grtz Jackie

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