Picking the Salt , (10 images) See earlier pictures of 'Making Salt in Thailand' to get the full story. Here see the follow up pictures of how the salt is picked from the bottom layer in the pond of saturated salt water. When the water still is half an inch high, the deposits of salt at the bottom of the pond is loosened and collected into piles of crystal clear pure seawater salt. We have tasted the salt and it tastes just excellent and nice. Much better than what you get as pure NaCl in the supermarket. Photo: Knut Øyvin Skaar - Bangkok