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Photography • Landscape • posted on Jan 01, 2014

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Salton Sea Southeastern California This small marina is just a stone's throw away from where our friends are camped for the winter. The Salton Sea is really a lake, and therefore not tidal. The water will not come back and re-fill this basin in a few hours. Dry is the new norm. The ground is white due to salt and mineral deposits left behind when the water evaporated and/or ran off.

Comments (16)

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blondeblurr

8:28PM | Wed, 01 January 2014

It's all been slipping away ... well and truly! I have seen and read about it - what a great pity ... but it may not all be lost, the Earth will regenerate and create something else - of use to us, no doubt ? Not everything else is a man-made disaster but what an interesting pic this makes Tara, ...now, will someone please, pass the salt for my chips ;P BB

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MrsRatbag

8:52PM | Wed, 01 January 2014

It would be a great dock for hovercraft, the space kind, not the watery ones. ;p This whole place is so sad, but given that it's California and for decades they've been predicting "the big one" maybe it will come and the water will return here. It could happen! Fantastic capture, and I hope you and the mister have a wonderful new year!

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Faemike55

8:52PM | Wed, 01 January 2014

and it is a shame that the people of the area allowed this to happen without protest. Man's inhumanity to the world will come back to haunt him too soon, I fear. no matter what some politicians say. ( you know which group I'm referring to) Great capture of reality

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Wolfenshire

9:31PM | Wed, 01 January 2014

I read it's going to happen in more places than that. Coastal cities are already disappearing, deserts becoming uninhabitable, and the next fifteen years is going to be a terrible shock for those that have kept their eyes shut.

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pimanjc

9:34PM | Wed, 01 January 2014

That looks like Kansas lakes most of this summer. We finally got rains to fill them the last week of August.

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jocko500

9:59PM | Wed, 01 January 2014

wonderful looking place. wonder if the salt is good to eat?

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durleybeachbum

1:10AM | Thu, 02 January 2014

An image of political thoughtlessness. Your photos of this desolate place recur in my dreams sometimes .

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wysiwig

1:13AM | Thu, 02 January 2014

The Salton Sea has been retreating for decades while politicians debated the best way to save it. You will notice that it is still retreating. Pretty stark reminder in this image. Meanwhile 2013 saw the least amount of rain for the year in recorded history. It is such a relief to know that global climate change is just a myth.

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SunriseGirl

1:34AM | Thu, 02 January 2014

I like this photo of this area the best of all you have posted so far. I do not know why that is, but I think for some reason this shot gives me hope. Yes, the marina is abandoned and dry, but all the water in the distance gives it the feeling to me that renewed life is just a stones throw away and everything can change in an instant.

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