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The Blogosphere: Best blogs on the Salton Sea

Posted by: Maven on July 15, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Here’s a series of blogs about traveling through the Salton Sea area. These guys traveled through the Salton Sea about a week after I did, and saw pretty much the same things. Wockner got around to actually writing his blog; so I decided that, instead of writing my own, I would just link to his.

He’s got a lot of great pictures and commentary in a 5-part series: part 1 – Salton Sea, the west shore; part 2 – the east shore; part 3 – Salton Sea recreation area, part 4 – Mud Volcanoes; and part 5 – Salvation Mountain.

Cajun’s Salton Sea blogs: Slab City, Mud Volcanoes, Salvation Mountain, can hell be much worse?, and redemption.

These guys covered just about everything we saw, with the exception of a few things. We stopped at the Sonny Bono Bird Watching Refuge – a good stop to make if you are in the area. They have an air-conditioned visitors center there, plus a platform you can climb up to look for birds. We did see plenty of birds around – different types I had never seen before. I highly recommend stopping there as well if you choose to travel to the Salton Sea. Also recommended are the mud volcanoes and Salvation Mountain.

If you travel to see the mud volcanoes and Salvation Mountain, you will go through the town of Niland. This town is small, and doesn’t have many commercial enterprises. It was lunch time when we went through, and there were two restaurants in town, I think. ballasteros-small.jpg We stopped at Ballesteros Restaurant – a Mexican restaurant – and the food was yummy and very reasonably priced. The staff took great care of us and even entertained our kids for us while Aqua Blog Maven & spouse could actually enjoy a peaceful meal. I highly recommend this place!

Another place we drove through was the community of Bombay Beach. My research determined that the pictures of the rotting trailers in the sea came from this area; if this is true, they have since been cleaned up. What is left of Bombay Beach is a small community of mobile homes, some taken care of, others, well, not. Looking for a piece of the California Dream? Look no further than this (be sure to click on the picture to see a larger view):

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July 15, 2007 · Filed Under Aquafornia News & Exclusives

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