San Luis salt flats

The weather has been warm but its been very very windy today. Tonight it has clouded over and I have had to put a tee-shirt on to sit outside tonight - it feels chilly (ridiculous when it is actually about 25 degrees!)

Mum and I went to the salt flatswhich are local to her today. There's a number of these which are harvested near to Alicante and Torrevieja. This particular one isn't harvested.

The lake is spectacular because in the heat, the water evaporates and the lake changes colour from blue to a beautiful lilac colour - it goes purple on the flats that are harvested.

We took a 15 minute walk along the 'beach' this afternoon - but the beach is actually a bright white inch thick layer of salt crystals. IN places the crystals are the size of 50 pence pieces, and there are all sorts of 'clumps' of crystals.

However, I have suffered for my art...despite putting factor 50 suncream on, I have actually got sunburn on my chest. It's sore!

Off up onto the solarium now to go and do firework spotting - its Fiesta tonight in Benijofar and also its the penultimate night of the Moors and Christians celebrations in Guardarmar....the party last night went on till 6am(we could hear it as the wind was blowing in our direction and carrying the party noise!)

Another hour at the gym this morning as well.

Just in case you missed it earlier in the text, the rest of the salt flat photos are here (Corin - click on the link and have a look - I got some interesting mineral formation shots especially for you!