The Salton Sea is one of those places dilapidated photographers love to visit. Nature reclaims neighborhoods that have long been abandoned, although some recalcitrant continue to call home Salton Sea. The Salton Sea stinks like sulfur and rotting flesh. The goose coastline is covered in petrified fish that died out of breath. The streets that appear on the map suddenly end up in the dirt and sand. The neighborhoods are ghost towns, full of gutted houses with walls and decomposition graffitied furniture.
We both used to visit the Salton Sea as children. Rome used to go fishing for tilapia. I tag my mother and her friend who loved watching the birds at the Salton Sea. You can check hundreds of species of birds in your checklist birding the Salton Sea.
What we visit the children were ghost towns Salton Sea. Our trip to the Salton Sea was motivated by my desire to practice some night photography and capture the Milky Way above the Salton Sea at night, but as I studied photography Salton Sea night places, I found so many weird and unusual places to visit around the salton Sea during the day.
The Salton Sea, the largest lake in California, was an accident. In 105, the Colorado River has burst and filled the basin of an ancient lakebed. The Salton Sea newborn seemed to be a great possibility for appeal. Gus Eilers built a station, Date Palm Beach in 1927. The station was purchased by Roy Hunter in 1947 and became a yacht club. Resort towns sprung up along the shore in the 1950s and people thought that the Salton Sea was to be the new place to see and be seen. That dream was short lived as the Salton Sea has increased salinity and pollution from agricultural runoff and began to stink. Now the places that would be in full swing resort towns have turned into ghost desolated towns.
The first ghost town Salton Sea, we visited while we toured the Salton Sea was Salton Sea Beach. Salton Sea Beach is a small neighborhood just north of Salton City and south of Desert Shores. There was no sign of life in this ghost town, except for the birds. Salton Sea Beach has dirt roads, collapsed buildings, many colorful graffiti, and a surprising amount of decomposition of furniture sitting in the middle of the nowhere.
Just just north of the Salton Sea Beach is Desert Shores. This area is inhabited. We found this area had some good places for night photography, especially on the beach along Capri Road.
At North Shore is the North Shore Beach & Yacht Club. The yacht club has been abandoned for a long time, but has recently been restored and is used as a community center.
Probably one of the most interesting towns along the Salton Sea is Bombay Beach. Bombay Beach will be of particular interest to gamers, especially fans of the Grand Theft Auto series. We had barely pulled in Bombay Beach, Romeo began shouting: "This is the place of Trevor" One of the not so great pretensions of the Salton Sea to fame is a meth capital, giving it the dubious honor be used as a model for Grand Theft Auto V of Sandy Shores, the residence of one of its main characters, Trevor, a meth addict. what was really weird driving through this city Grand Theft Auto driving appeal our friend of Duty Jeep….
There are interesting things to see in Bombay Beach. One of our unusual discoveries was a shell of a house with milk cartons nailed to one of the outer walls. Each carton of milk has a picture of a person, a narrative and the missing word.
Another interesting place is the Ski Inn, self-proclaimed world famous and the lower bar elevation in the Western Hemisphere. Of course, Anthony Bourdain visit Ski Inn during season four of No Reservations , so that is quite a claim to fame.
Slab City is the opposite of a ghost town, but it is off-the-grid and a little less populated in the summer heat. Slab City is famous for being the last free place in America. It used to be frequented by snowbirds looking to save money but it now has a permanent population. Slab City has no water, no electricity and no sewage. However, Slab City has a sculpture garden called East Jesus.
A short drive away is Salvation Mountain , a tribute act of man to God. Whether you are religious or not, this is an interesting stop and artwork. Salvation Mountain is a job being that began with a man who lived in his truck.
The hill is made of clay and straw and painting. Many paint. More than 100,000 gallons of paint were used. There is also a "museum", a domed area built with straw, tires swept wood, glass, and, of course, more paint.
Slab city and Salvation Mountain is a short drive from the town of Salton Sea Niland, who has qualities ghost town with its quiet streets and general abandoned store.
As we continued our training schedule around the Salton Sea, we encountered no more ghost towns. But we found some other great places for photography. A natural phenomenon and otherworldly along the sea Salton is mud pots Salton Sea. during the coldest months, the mud pots are hot pools of water. during the heat of summer, the pools dry up, but mud mounds still bubbling and crackling inside, making the sounds of a coffee machine, and spitting occasional beak geothermal water.
Our final stop, at 3:00 in the afternoon, when it reached 116 degrees, was on the shore at the corner of Young Road and drain Vail Seven. The surrounding terrain is all farmland, a juxtaposition of mud and cracked lifeless trunks of fallen trees along the shore.
There not many hotels near the Salton Sea. We chose to stay in Borrego Springs, 40 minutes drive from the Salton Sea, the The Springs at Borrego RV Resort & Golf Course . the Springs has good small cottages, a bit like tiny houses for travelers who do not have an RV. Our cottage has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, and a attic. the cottages are dogs and have air conditioning, so we left Henry and Charlie in the comfort of the cabin while we braved the 100+ degree heat.
The Springs has a swimming pool, mineral baths, recreation center, exercise room, laundry facilities, dog park, and nine holes of golf, which Rome took the morning before we left.
While the original plans for the Salton Sea to become a resort area and the next Las Vegas failed, cities and the phantom nature of the Salton Sea are a popular destination for photographers and travelers who are looking for a more unusual visit.
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