Ses Salines beach, world famous, world-famous winter is a haven of peace and tranquility.
That quiet winter is only disturbed by the presence of a cargo ship in search of salt.
And in so crude as winter this year in Europe, was frantic activity in the salt.
This installation is at the end of the Salinas, in a small group of houses known as Sa Canal, where there is also a good number of booths dock.
From Scotland have been two ships to load salt for events on the roads, and Friday, the second one was filling their cellars with salt.
The ship was the AB DUBLIN, of German shipowner, flag of Antigua and Barbados, and Russian crew.
One of the trucks waiting for the order to release salt into the door of the premises. Download
salt in one of the two Torbas crusher. Torba
full, beginning to pour salt into the blender.
Upon exiting the crusher, the salt is piling up.
Then a "shovel" picks it up and puts it in the first of three individual tapes.
Salt runs the first individual tapes.
In the last individual tape goes a long conveyor belt.
The conveyor belt carries the salt to the ship's hold at high speed.
And finally, just salt in the holds of the ship under the watchful supervision of operators of the salt and the ship itself.
When this process completes, the ship the ship is ready to go.
Interestingly, yesterday was another ship, the Oder Valley, Faroe Islands, which is approximately every six weeks to load salt.