Polja bijele vode

Polly je letjela na jug uz obalu. Kod male rijeke kopno je bilo ravno. Uz more je bilo stotine plitkih bazena. Svaki bazen sjao je kao zrcalo. To su Sečoveljske soline. Ljudi ovdje proizvode sol više od sedamsto godina.

Polly flew south along the coast. By a small river, the land was flat. There were hundreds of shallow pools by the sea. Each pool shone like a mirror. These are the salt pans of Sečovlje. People have made salt here for more than seven hundred years.

Morska voda ulazi u bazene. Cijelo ljeto sunce odnosi vodu. Sol ostaje. Polly je ušla u jedan bazen. Voda je bila topla i slana.

Sea water comes into the pools. All summer the sun takes the water away. The salt stays. Polly walked into a pool. The water was warm and salty.

Radnici su gurali duge drvene grablje kroz vodu. Bijela sol stvarala je male brežuljke. Rade rukama, kao nekada davno.

The salt workers pushed long wooden rakes through the water. The white salt made small hills. They work by hand, like long ago.

Jedan radnik pokazao joj je dno bazena. Bilo je tamno i glatko, kao koža. Ono drži blato dolje, pa sol ostaje bijela.

A worker showed her the floor of the pool. It was dark and smooth, like skin. It keeps the mud down, so the salt stays white.