STOP THE DAM

Kings Beach – Let the salt be 🌊

🧂 Salt Info

Some reading the group has found useful. We are not experts.

These came up at meetings or people sent them to us. If you have something to add please email us.

Note: we don't necessarily agree with everything on these sites but people found them interesting so we have put them up. Make up your own mind!

Salt tolerant plants 🌿

• Halophytes - plants that grow in salty places
• Saltbush (Atriplex)
• Pigface - grows on our dunes already!
• Samphire (Salicornia)
• Mangroves - these actually get rid of salt through their leaves
• Sand dune stabilization

Hand harvesting sea salt

People have been doing this for thousands of years. Could something like this work at the top of the beach?

• Fleur de sel - the salt from Brittany in France
• Guérande (France) (link may be broken)
• Aveiro, Portugal - they have salt pans here
• Salt evaporation ponds
• Sea salt
• Quinton marine plasma - drinking filtered sea water?? (French company)
• The Living Salt Page - someone who has been collecting salt in jars since 1987. Has a lot to say about beach salt being different to ocean salt!!

Seaweed and the ocean

• Seaweed
• Kelp forests
• Why is the ocean salty? (NOAA, America)
• Seawater
• Seaweed: The Kidneys of the Sea - this one is very good on why we should be protecting the seaweed
• Masaru Emoto - the water crystals man. Water responds to how we treat it.
• Living Water - Viktor Schauberger (PDF, big file)

Mycelium and biochar 🍄

• Mycelium
• Mycoremediation - using fungi to clean up soil
• Biochar (link may be broken)
• Fungal Salt Barriers - someone actually tested mycelium with salt water in sand! Experiment #7 is the one to read.

Other

• Salt for protection - salt in traditions around the world

The rocks at the southern end