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Kerstin & Arthur at the Salton Sea

Drove to the Salton Sea. This is just 30 miles from the Mexican border atop the San Andreas fault. It’s an area that has been flooded periodically forever. From 6M to 2M years ago the area was very wet and forested , but it dried up and was desert for the last 2M years until 1905 when an irrigation pipe bringing water to the Imperial Valley cracked, combined with a big flood of the Colorado, and the Salton sea was reborn. It grew for awhile — from agricultural runoff — but now it is shrinking again. It is 40 feet deep at its deepest, and the average is about 20 feet deep. It is very salty — more so than the ocean.