Dilettante Photography: Retrospective

Saline Crater Lake Of Pedra De Lume (Sal - Cape Verde, January 2016) This natural salt sea is on the crater of an extinct volcano. It was formed by infiltration from the nearby sea, as the crater is below sea level. It's diameter is about 900m. This place is actually where the (human) history of the Island of Sal beginns. At the end of the 18th century a Portuguese entrepreneur started the commercial extraction of salt and the human settlement on this uninhabited island began. However, production levels were rather low and the salt business was not really a commercial success story. These days, the salt production company is owned by Italians but the output is hardly sufficient to cover the needs of the island. There is a bathing facility mainly used by tourists. The salt content of the water of 38% is slightly higher than the one in the Dead Sea (34%). #capeverde #volcanos

Desert View: Monte Leste (Sal - Cape Verde, January 2016) Like Monte Leste (el. 263 meters) the volcanos on the island of Sal are extinct according to volcanologists. Then again, in November 2014 there was a huge volcanic eruption on the Cape Verde Island of Fogo - not more than around 250 KM in linear distance from Sal. At the time villages were completely destroyed on Fogo and people had to be evacuated from the Island. Also, volcanologists say that there is a substantial volcanic activity going on below sea level in the Western part of the archipelago. They even expect the birth of new islands over there in the not too distant future... #sal #capeverde #volcanos