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This picture of the salt pans on the west coast of Sicily is another one of our venues for our Art Toscana Painting Vacations in Sicily. The photo hasn’t caught the real colour of the water which has a pinkish hew due to the pink plankton which live there. The resident flamingos feed on the plankton and that is why flamingos are pink!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This picture of the salt pans on the west coast of Sicily is another one of our venues for our Art Toscana Painting Vacations in Sicily. The photo hasn’t caught the real colour of the water which has a pinkish hew due to the pink plankton which live there. The resident flamingos feed on the<\/p>\n

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