The Salton Sea is beautiful on the surface, but the highly saline (salty) water is the color of coffee and it smells terrible! Amazingly, sea birds overwinter here by the thousands! It is located south of Joshua Tree NP and I-10.
spp. Salton Sea March 20, 2007 This plant is a weedy non-native shrub that grows along riverbanks, creeks and lakes.
) on a jetty in the Salton Sea.