What could better typify the Salton Sea than a bleached bone.
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This is the real color. The water looks - depending on your point of view, I suppose - like either deadly poison or Mountain Dew.
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Yet the area is beautiful - in a weird way.
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This plant is dead and bleached, and the water is, well, that color.
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Much of the shore is white from deposited minerals.
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Yet birds use the area as a migration stopover and do not seem to be harmed by the water.
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In fact the birds look pretty healthy.
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Flocks of cranes inhabit the area.
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Shore birds wander along the crusty ponds like it was a pristine shoreline.
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Ever see dragonflies mating?
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Steel does not last long here. It simply rots away.
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This might have been your father's Oldsmobile!
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The bridge to nowhere.
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Through the window of an abandoned building.
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A screen window in another building.
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Railroads go through the area which was once touted as an industrial site.
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Hey - where is everybody going? Don't leave me here alone.
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A freshly ploughed farm field not a hundred yards from the while mineral-crusted shorline we show above.
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Panoramic view of the water and dead trees. Note the birds perched in the trees.
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