Our plan was to drive from Yuma to a BLM campsite near plaster city. We took the slow route away from the freeway and drove through the imperial desert recreation area then south along the Mexican border to Calexico and then on to Plaster city. When we arrived there we discovered that the BLM land was blocked of by some private land owners so we had to extend out rip on up to Salton city. to stay over night. A bit longer day than we planned but it was still good as we got to see the southern California landscape along the way.
Click on this link for an interesting history of this lake
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| This is the view from the car as you drive through the sand dunes. When there is high winds the sand blows across the highway like a snow storm. Last year we saw them cleaning the sand of the road with a snow plow on a truck |
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| These dunes are open to ATV 's and 4 wheelers |
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| This is a massive area covering a few hundred sq miles |
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| As we moved closer to Calexico you could see the landscape transition to farm land |
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| This is all farmland where they grow alfalfa all under irrigation. |
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| Those white buidings are all storing giant square bales of hay |
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| This hay is transported by trucks to the mega dairy farms . |
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| In the middle of no where on a back country highway was this huge set buildings where they appear to be making sheet rock. No houses near by, just the factory. Not sure why it would be called a city. |
2 comments:
Interesting, but sad, history of the Salton Sea. It's fun to see the photos of its earlier days. The story reminds me of a recent radio program about a research project which showed that salt runoff from roadways into bodies of water weakens/kills dragonflies (which live at the bottom of the water) and in turn, increases the mosquito population.
Someone likely had a dream of Plaster City becoming a 'city'!
that's a lot of sand!
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