Campos de agua blanca
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 voló hacia el sur por la costa. Junto a un río pequeño, la tierra era llana. Había cientos de estanques poco profundos junto al mar. Cada estanque brillaba como un espejo. Son las salinas de Sečovlje. Aquí se hace sal desde hace más de setecientos años.
El agua del mar entra en los estanques. Todo el verano, el sol se lleva el agua. La sal se queda. Polly entró en un estanque. El agua estaba tibia y salada.
Los salineros empujaban largos rastrillos de madera por el agua. La sal blanca formaba montoncitos. Trabajan a mano, como hace mucho tiempo.
Un salinero le enseñó el fondo del estanque. Era oscuro y liso, como una piel. Mantiene el barro abajo, y así la sal sigue blanca.
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