The Lagoons

Where the land stops being land. Shallow water held in by sand the sea keeps moving, worked for salt and settled by pelicans.

• G.1KaravastaA large coastal lagoon separated from the sea by a sand spit, with pelicans breeding on its islets and a dune system behind.
• G.2NartaA shallow lagoon worked for salt, where the salt pans are the landscape.
• G.3A spit is temporaryLongshore drift builds the bar that makes the lagoon, and the same process will eventually close or breach it.