An interesting little thing that I never thought of all this time, and here I am in front of my office, seeing salt being harvested.
I have never thought of that process, and did not even know what to call it until someone told me that it was salt being harvested.
It actually makes a beautiful sight. Nice.
Romit's Stream 
Tried to post this earlier, but guess it did not go through.. You had not seen salt harvesting earlier, because you might have not travelled on the Flying Ranee from Mumbai to Surat often enough, in your childhood.. that stretch had so many of these!- SPM
@spm: I have seen it, but never realized it was “harvesting” ;-)I associated harvesting with crops and not salt.