South Bonaire Island Scooter Tour UNBELIEVABLE Pink Salt Lake & Flamingos
Come explore the south side of Bonaire Island as we take our scooter to visit the unbelievable pink salt lake! Let's find out why they are pink, which may give us an indication of why #flamingos are ALSO pink!
The Pink Salt Flats is part of the Cargill Salt Works company who uses about 13% of the island's surface area to manufacture sea salt. Water from the Caribbean Sea is pumped into the salt flats and is set to evaporate over several months. The result is salt that's used in commercial applications, medications, water softeners, and for cooking. After production, the salt is then transported by large ships to various locations in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and Africa.
The water in the Pink Salt Flats is pink because of a microorganism called halophilic bacteria. This bacteria thrives in highly salty environments. The cell membranes all contain carotenoid pigments, which produces the pink color. This just so happens to be something that is ingested by flamings as they eat crustaceans and rosy brine shrimp from these ponds.
On the trek around the south end of #BonaireIsland, we also stopped to visit the Willemstoren #Lighthouse. The lighthouse was built in 1837 to protect the ships passing by the shallow reefs, aiding in protecting them from becoming shipwrecked!
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Salt Pans - Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
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The salt pans or salt flats of Bonaire have been used for the extraction and exportation of salt for centuries. These natural ponds were first worked by African slaves who were brought to Bonaire to work the salt pans and plantations.
Slave huts were built on the southern coast of the island, near the salt pans to house the slaves. Unbearably tiny and intolerably hot, it's hard to believe that the slaves could actually stand upright inside the huts much less live in there for any period of time. They are built right on the shore and overlook the ocean. Colored obelisk markers still dot the shore; their different colors indicating to offshore ships where to drop anchor for salt pickup.
For more information, visit Bonaire.JustAskLocals.com
Sea Salt Heals - Koi Whisperer in Bonaire
After years of working with natural salt in healing Koi and sea salt for healing skin and scars on humans, M travels to experience the healing sea salt on the island of Bonaire.
Launching in 2017, Salt Heals tm will be available bringing the amazing healing qualities of Bonaire's Sea Salt to our Zen Living by design product line for people. Visit seasaltheals.com soon!
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Best Salt In The World
In this video, I will be using salt flat salt for seasoning on a pizza! I went to the salt flat on Bonaire and found some big rocks of salt that come off the conveyor belt when the salt is transported onto the boats. I clean the salt, smash it up and use it on my homemade pizza.
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Bonaire Island Tour | Royal Caribbean Bonaire | What to do in Bonaire
We did the Best of Bonaire shore excursion with Royal Caribbean and Freedom of the Seas that took us on an island tour.
Highlights include:
- scenic drive to the south side of the island
- Salt Flats
- Historic Homes of the Salt Flat workers (Slave Huts as locally referred to)
- Lac Bay
Our tour guide was very informative and commentated the entire drive. We began the tour with a scenic drive from the cruise terminal and heard about the history of the island including the salt industry. We stopped to see some of the salt flats where the salt continues to be produced to this day. Our next stop was at the historic homes of the salt workers - and a view into slavery on the island to support this industry. We ended our tour at Lac Bay, a spot popular with windsurfers and swimmers for the calm waters, but strong breeze.
Following the tour we were dropped off at the cruise port and then went exploring Kralendijk, Bonaire.
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Think pink on this leisurely, commentated drive on the lookout for Bonaire's famous flamingos. Travel through the countryside to the southeast's lush mangrove forests, stopping for a refreshment break at the spectacular bay where you can dip your feet in the turquoise waters. At the salt flats of Pekelmeer (Pink Lake), shrimp-filled pools attract flocks of flamingos. Touch history inside the crude huts that sheltered the 19th century slaves who worked and harvested salt here.
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Salt has a history on Bonaire. Today you can still watch the beautiful crystal white salt mountains in a tour down South over the island. Insta easy to shoot, sometimes beautifully surrounded by pink waters. Recently VOGUE Netherlands shoot one of their famous covers with Dutch model Romee Strijd.
Salt Flats Bonaire November 2015
Top 7 INCREDIBLE Places In BONAIRE you WON'T BELIEVE EXIST
Top Travel Destinations: 7 INCREDIBLE Places In BONAIRE you WONT BELIEVE EXIST! This extensive list from a recent trip shows you the top 7 most incredible places on the tropical Island of Bonaire in the Caribbean, one of the top Travel Destinations in the World!
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Bonaire Sea Salt Harvest
Watch big machines harvest sea salt on the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Learn about solar sea salt ponds and watch the machines scoop the salt from the dry sea bed.
Pekelmeer Flamingo Sanctuary - Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
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The Pekelmeer Flamingo Sanctuary is located on the southern tip of Bonaire and is home to the beautiful pink flamingo as well as scores of other birds. Salt pans are a natural draw for birds and Bonaire has been extracting salt from its natural salt ponds for centuries. The salt flats are filled with brine shrimp which are an important part of the flamingo's diet. Eating a large quantity of the shrimp give the flamingos their brilliant pink color.
For more information, visit Bonaire.JustAskLocals.com
Bonaire - July 2017
Bonaire; Slave Huts; Salt Flats; Goto Lake; Kralendijk; Caribbean Netherlands
Enroute to the Salt Flats in Bonaire
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Salt, windmills and pink feathers. How Trapani sea salt is made.
Of all the staples in our kitchen, salt is probably the most overlooked. I flew to western Sicily to discover the sea salt winning tradition of Trapani.
Interview with Irene Culcasi - Salt Museum.
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Bonaire- Part 1/2 (Salt Pans, Slave Huts, Flamingos and Landhuis)
Brian returns to the ABC Islands, this time to explore the islands of Curacao and Bonaire.
Though both are officially part of the Netherlands, the islands couldn't be more different.
From Curacao, Brian day trips to the nearby island of Bonaire. After meeting up with his guide, also named Brian, Brian's Bonaire adventure begins.
Segments on Bonaire include, the island's famous salt mounds and white slave huts, a visit to 1,000 Steps, an abandoned plantation house in Karpata, flamingos on Gotomeer Lake, the town of Rincon, religious monument in Seru Largu, cave snorkeling in the desert, a Dutch fort in Kralendijk, and reef snorkeling in town.
Filmed July 28, 2015
Bonaire Salt Foam
Bonaire has large salt flats that are mined for road salt (and some table salt). If you're on the East Coast of the United States, your roads may have Bonaire salt on them in the winter.
The trade winds blow almost all the time on Bonaire. They stir up salt foam on the edges of the salt flats. This is a video of the salt foam, which has a surreal otherworldly look about it.
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Stekel goes Boka Jumping
Nice dive at Boka Onima. Big corals, Nurse Shark, Lobster and other stuff.
Know Your North Season 3 Episode 2 Salt Flats
Pangasinan is derived from the word “panag asinan” which means, “where salt is made”. It is a popular livelihood of the coastal communities on the western side of the province.
But salt making is more than just a source of living. It is a tradition that makes its culture, people & place. Take a peek at the lives of the salt-makers mirrored on a bed of salt.
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