The trip on the way to Slab City. Helicopters, fires, old historical buildings, ponds, mudpots, large dried up inlets. A varied day.
Helicopter being used for spraying - he came flying towards us and waved us to get the hell out of there
Flowers being sprayed
South end of the Sea - Canal running into the Salton Sea
Southern Salton Sea - flats getting drier and drier
Pond with I am guessing Algae
Inlet at the Salton Sea
Warning - Water may be shallow....
The tongue of a Mudpot
Little Volcanoes
The Adobe: a building with an interesting history: during the Prohibition in the twenties, it was a drinking den; in the thirties and fourties a Brothel and in the fifties at the height of the popularity of the Salton Sea, it became a Health Spa.
The old bathhouse with showers and toilets
Inside the bathhouse: Art and disused toilets
Old baths - the Adobe used to be a spa in the fifties. It is quite possible that there were natural hotsprings.
A hunter had accidentaly started a fire during the time that we were at the Adobe.
Sadly, nothing will change unless they stop practicing the old failed conventional science-based WWII created chemical technology that has since 1950s brought us the not so green revolution. Many of those sals are from the crystaline structure of those fertilizers which increase the Salinity of the sea. Pity the technology isn't more Nature based as replicating how the natural world takes care of and feeds itself through beneficial bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi. Unfortunately those technologies don't make as much money and that is the bottomline problem.
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