![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9015.jpg) These evaporation ponds are on the southern shore of Lake Afrera. Cinder cones and Hayli Gubbi volcano in the background. | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9023.jpg) Salt foam gets piled up along the shore of Lake Afrera (or Giulietti) by the prevailing northern winds. | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9048.jpg) Remarkably, these palms seem able to survive even in such an unhospitale salty environment. | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9027.jpg) Water from the lake is evaporated in these artifical ponds, creating salt deposits in a few days. |
![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9038.jpg) Very early in the morning workers cut up the dried salt crust. | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9040.jpg) Then very large salt blocks are lifted... | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9042.jpg) ...while Venus shines high in the sky (upper left). | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9043.jpg) Then the salt blocks are broken in smaller pieces. |
![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9058.jpg) The salt is now ready to be removed from the pond... | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9050.jpg) ...and is here piled up to be later picked up by trucks. | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9052.jpg) Time for a well-deserved breakfast. | ![Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008 Salt from Lake Giulietti 2008](afrera-2008/icons/afrera-mf9059.jpg) Salt dust in the air can do much damage to eyes! |