With the little hand on the clock now two hours astern of midnight.......
there's a glow over the harbour and another emanating from outside Newlyn gallery as it hosts this year's Museum's at Night event, Salt!.........
although there is much to see inside the gallery, like Katja Davar's "The stage, the plot" inspired by the tidal observatory at the end of the South pier in Newlyn........
it's outside where there's salt being produced.........
in a series of biscuit ware troughs - the same process is used the world over, a series of containers are heated (sometimes naturally) - as water evaporates off, brine from the first is added to the second container, which in turn is added to the third..........
after six hours........
and around 40 Kg of the finest Scottish peat.........
the third trough is half full of almost solid salt ready to adorn any fish dish.........
more peat and heat speeds the process..........
with the occasional top up of water and stirring of brine.......there's a strong local connection with evidence of salt making over on the Lizard at St Keverne - the recently created Cornish Sea Salt Company follows in this tradition not many miles away in Porthkerris.........
the current gallery exhibition is open till the 16th of june.
