I found this well-made YouTube video about California's Salton Sea, a man-made body of water somewhere southwest of the Mojave Desert. A very interesting place, we've been there with friends in one of our off-road trips. One of the things that struck me from this video was the notion of "what things would look like without us", and how eery do places look when humans abandon them. I didn't get that feeling so strongly when I was visiting it, probably because we could only spend a couple of hours near sunset and we were not looking forward to being there after dark; and then we spent a good bit of that time getting one of our companions unstuck off the "fish-bone" mud.
This is a selection of pictures from that 2009 trip, with our short visit to the place.
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| The fish-bone "sand". |
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| The worst type of mud I've seen. |
