...to Antelope Island, home to bison...
...and very small, long-bodied brine flies.
We had hoped to take a dip in the lake at Bridger Bay Beach, but the water level is so low we would have had to walk about half a mile through sand, salt and water to get far enough into the lake to swim.
After leaving the Great Salt Lake, we headed across the Great Salt Lake Desert.
In all this desolate beauty, the Swedish artist Karl Momen erected an 87-foot tall concrete sculpture, Metaphor: The Tree of Life. The spheres on the tree are coated with natural rock and minerals native to Utah.
The Bonneville Salt Flats, the bed of the ancient Bonneville Lake.
TRAVEL TEASE: Ka-ching.
When you were at Bonneville salt flats did you try and see how fast the rental would go? The land speed records have been set out there.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't. The Bonneville salt flats and the vast salt flats east of it are desolate beyond belief; some of the most haunting, evocative landscape we've ever seen.
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