There
are two Ponds
in the peninsula of Capo Falcone:
Casaraccio Pond at the end of the Saline Beach about 3 Km. before
reaching
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| The
pond of Pilo with a colony of pink flamingos |
Stintino
coming from Porto Torres and Pilo Pond near the village of Issi
on the northern coast. The pond of Pilo lies out of sight beeing
located some kilometers internally between the main road and the
sea. In top of that is nature reserve, so that has kept a quite
sinister look on the shore with a carpet of shells' fragments and
here and there a carcass of a fish or other animals, but in the
middle you can admire thr wonderful show given by a colony of pink
flamingos that nested here (present also in other ponds of Sardinia
as for example the Cabras Pond).
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| The
two ponds of the promontory |
The characteristic of both of
the ponds is to be made by salt water; in several points salt
deposits form when the level of water decreases in the arider
periods. In both the ponds actually the side close to the sea
is subject to continuous infiltrations of salt water. Owing to
this situation, it is obvious that vegetation
can be only made up of species endowed with a high resistance
to the salinity of the soil; they are growth of bushes and rushes
and in some more internal places, also tamarisks.
The Pond
of Casaraccio (or Saline pond), not
much deep, extends for about 7.5 Ha. It is separated from the
sea by a narrow strip of sand and has a length of about 800 mt.
(perpendicularly to the line of the coast) against a width of
only 100 mt.
The Pond
of Pilo has a larger extent of about
1.2 Km2. It is separated from the sea by a narrow strip of sand
as well. Unlike the pond of Casaraccio, the Pilo one is feeded
by small streams that soften the water in irregular way in several
points. The shore is extremely soft, covered by a carpet of salt
and of shells fragments; for this reason the shore is not suitable
for walking all over.
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