We went to Salton City for the weekend to take photos. Salton City is located right next to Salton Sea, 3 hours east of Los Angeles. Salton Sea was created due to poor engineering when redirecting the Colorado River. Heavy rainfall made the river flood in 1905 and created the lake, some 220 feet below sea level. They planted fish in the sea and Salton City was a popular tourist resort in the 1920’s.
By the late 1970’s people started to realize that since there were no outlets in the sea and no fresh water coming in, the sea got polluted and stinky and the fish started to die off. People moved away, leaving their houses behind – we thought that sounded cool and wanted to take photos!
So, it’s in the middle of the desert and dead hot! The sea looks oh so inviting but you don’t want to jump in, trust me!
This is where the marina used to be – it’s now fenced off;
The population of Salton City was down to less than 1000 in the year 2000.
Due to America’s crappy economy though, and since it’s so cheap to live in the middle of nowhere, the population had increased to almost 4000 in 2010. I think a lot of them lives in trailers.
I was fascinated at first, but then I got a little grossed out by all the trash. My friends gladly went into all these trashed trailers, but I was scared that they would fall apart once I was in there.
It was just a bunch of junk everywhere, and off course, bullet holes!
And then there’s desert…
This was probably some fancy living back in the days, with a pool and all!
