FIELD REPORT 021ORRIN FLATS / KESTREL COAST
Field report / Coastal industry
The short
salt season
Every year the Orrin Flats have fewer dry days to turn sea water into salt.
PLATE 01 / ILLUSTRATION / ORRIN FLATS AT DAWN (FICTIONAL)
F/2.8 1/250 ISO 400
Orrin Flats, Kestrel coast
Harvest opens12 September
The rakersEight crews drag the new crust into rows, one 40 minute pass per pan.
Annotation: crust forms only after six dry days in a row.
The route
One rail line,
one season
Orrin Works
Kestrel Quay
18km by rail from the works to the quay.
Rain front: earlier every yearStorms from the Kestrel Sea now close the pans before the crust is ready.
Dry harvest days / per season
A season that shrinks
-39%
Dry days per season, 2015 to 2025. From 148 down to 91.
SOURCE: Orrin Works season logs (fictional dataset)
PLATE 02 / ILLUSTRATION / THE LAST SACK, ORRIN WORKS (FICTIONAL)
F/1.8 1/125 ISO 800
Last batch2 Nov 2025
Batch 11The final sack of the season left the pans.
Season closed
End of season
Reporting
Desk 07 / Kestrel Coast
All places, people and figures in this film are fictional.