Lessons in Sea Salt Making

Grace had come up with a plan to make sea salt this vacation.  She says, it's so easy.  All we need to do is collect some salt water from the ocean and boil it until it turns into salt.  Well, first of all we needed a container to bring the ocean water to our room.  The guys ordered some beer in 1/2 gallon jug bottles.  We used these (after they had been emptied) to bring water back to our room.  Grace and I went to the ocean in the dark and had to pass the waves digging up all the sand.  First try we were successful, however as we entered the water we were thinking of the sharks people were catchng while fishing and the jellyfish we have seen on the beach before.  We screwed the lids tight and then put them in the knapsack and headed to the hot tub and then back to the room.  Next step was to pour the water into a pan but filter it through a cheese cloth to catch any extras from the ocean not needed.  It took about 4 hours to boil the water.  We were surprised at the amount of salt we were able to get from the first batch.  We were so excited about the first batch that Grace and I went down a second time to get some more water.  We went in the afternoon this time.  The waves were quite high this time and it is a good thing we had our bathing suits on as we got completely wet.  We are now ready for our second batch.