2011-02-15 Salton Sea (the west side)

 The Salton Sea is a fresh water body but has about a 40% salt content.  Figure that out. It is California's largest lake, 35 miles long x 15 miles wide and 227 feet below sea level.  It is really polluted with chemicals (suspected from all the fertilizer used for the crops amount other sourses.)   What we saw was totally discusting.  Dead fish (Tilipia, similiar to perch) line the shore, the birds (sea-gulls, egrets) won't eat them, the smell is so bad that it was actually hard to breath.

 You can see the salt that is lying on the shore line.  Very few trees or shrubs grow here and the ones that are here are deformed and skinny.

 This is the boat launch  for those wanting to launch their crafts into this water but look below

 This what you see.  Dead and rotting fish.

And yet there are still lots of homes here. But a lot of them are empty,boarded up with signs on them,  "for rent quick and cheap"  These pictures are all from the west side of Salton Sea.