Unusual harvest from the sea

ON a remote stretch of black sand beach in Kusamba, east Bali, a salt farmer slowly emerges from the ocean with two wooden buckets balanced on a bamboo pole strung across his shoulder.  

At 5am, the sun is just beginning to warm the horizon but Nengah Satria, 50, started his labour an hour ago. He has only two hours to collect the precious seawater and scatter it across the beach before the sun rises.