Who's got the tequila?

We were heading up the east coast of the South Island today and stopped off to look at the saltworks at Lake Grassmere. Salt water is pumped in from the Pacific Ocean onto the flat shallow 'lake'. The warm north-westerly winds and the dry summer, combined with solar drying evaporates the water and salt crystals form. This digger was moving the stockpile and it looked a fun job!

[Issi Bannerman]

Oh boy, you'd need a lot of tequila to go with that amount of salt! ;-) Lovely capture and very interesting.

[Maggiemae]

Never been there but seen it from a distance! Who would know the history of salt here!

[Dianne]

@maggiemae yes - it’s interesting. We still have to import about 50% of NZ’s requirements.

[Babs]

Wow that's a lot of salt.

[aikiuser (jenn)]

That would be a whole lotta margarita!! Super interesting, I never much thought about salt processing--cool!

[Peter]

Now that is some amount of salt the digger really adding scale to the image Dianne:)

[Joan Robillard]

Funny.

[Debra]

Wow, how interesting! When I first saw the image I thought it was snow

[Jacqueline]

Lot of margaritas needed here ;)

[Pat Knowles]

Salt not snow....that’s different! We drove past there but you have an interesting photo here!

[Kathie]

I had no idea that was a method of making salt. Ours is mined under Lake Huron.