Campos de Água Branca
Polly follows the coast south to the salt pans of Sečovlje, where sea water dries into white salt and is raked by hand as it has been for more than seven hundred years.
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Polly voou para sul ao longo da costa. Perto de um pequeno rio, a terra era plana. Havia centenas de tanques rasos junto ao mar. Cada tanque brilhava como um espelho. São as salinas de Sečovlje. As pessoas fazem sal aqui há mais de setecentos anos.
A água do mar entra nos tanques. Durante todo o verão, o sol leva a água. O sal fica. Polly entrou num tanque. A água estava morna e salgada.
Os salineiros empurravam longos rodos de madeira pela água. O sal branco fazia pequenos montes. Eles trabalham à mão, como antigamente.
Um salineiro mostrou-lhe o fundo do tanque. Era escuro e liso, como pele. Segura a lama em baixo, e assim o sal fica branco.
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