The Salton Sea

1bones
What could better typify the Salton Sea than a bleached bone.
2pool
This is the real color. The water looks - depending on your point of view, I suppose - like either deadly poison or Mountain Dew.
3atree
Yet the area is beautiful - in a weird way.
3blchplant
This plant is dead and bleached, and the water is, well, that color.
4shote
Much of the shore is white from deposited minerals.
5bird
Yet birds use the area as a migration stopover and do not seem to be harmed by the water.
6bird
In fact the birds look pretty healthy.
6cbird
Flocks of cranes inhabit the area.
7bird
Shore birds wander along the crusty ponds like it was a pristine shoreline.
8dragonfly
Ever see dragonflies mating?
9arustyolds
Steel does not last long here. It simply rots away.
9bolds88
This might have been your father's Oldsmobile!
9cBridge
The bridge to nowhere.
9dwindow
Through the window of an abandoned building.
9eScreenwindow
A screen window in another building.
9fRRSwitch
Railroads go through the area which was once touted as an industrial site.
9gleave
Hey - where is everybody going? Don't leave me here alone.
9hfield
A freshly ploughed farm field not a hundred yards from the while mineral-crusted shorline we show above.
9jwater
Panoramic view of the water and dead trees. Note the birds perched in the trees.