The Salton Sea: The Skeleton in California's Closet
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2018
- What happened to the Salton Sea in California? In my first travel documentary about this strange yet fascinating place in California's Imperial Valley, I explore the sea and surrounding communities of Bombay Beach, Slab City, East Jesus, and Salton City.
The area was also the inspiration for the fictional desert town of Sandy Shores which appears in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. In the game, Trevor Philips acquires a small landing strip in the area which may be in reference to the Salton City airport.
I encourage you to read more about the lake’s history and the current ecological crisis it has become. You can find an interesting article written by Ian James and Sammy Roth on USA Today here: www.usatoday.com/pages/intera.... Thanks for watching! I hope to post more of these as I travel!
**CORRECTION** The Salton Bay Yacht Club was demolished in 2000, not the 80's.
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Nevermind the sea potentially being toxic, I got cancer from the fucking comments on this video.
Eric Penner 😂me too.
@@ExploreAlways Hahaha.
Welcome to RUclips.. LOL. Great video!
Nice! Good spot to explore and shoot.😎
Never Stop Exploring pussie
A couple of years ago I got stuck on the beach in my Jeep. After trying to dig out for two hours in 100+ degree heat, a guy showed up with a shovel, wagon, and wood and started helping me dig out. I was exhausted and told him I didn't want to keep him from doing something else. He said, I'm a bum. I don't have anything else to do. He didn't ask for anything and I didn't have any cash. A couple of times a year I send him a gift card to thank him. One of my favorite memories. EDIT (5 years later). He wasn't homeless. His house was up on the slope next to where he helped me. After we dug me out I drove to his house where he said he lived with his mother. He also let me use a hose to clean the dirt off my vehicle. None of the gift cards (16 as of 2021) were ever returned in the mail.
@68Camaro RS/SS Starbucks? They just mention that all businesses closed, moved or left. Lol
That was random bruh
Bullshit
68Camaro RS/SS he a bitch
Yeah... Cash is always King. You should've given him cash.
"welcome to beautiful sandy shores" -Trevor Philips
Lmao exactly, that's what I was thinking
STAAP IT
I loved Trevor, very few people have the balls to truly be them selves like he does. I realize he is a game character
@@tylerdurden8939 I hate Trevor! Why you ask?! He killed my boy Johnny!!
Tristan Kruger it is
Looks like a combination between art gallery and horror film setting.
Bianca Freismuth Yeah
The hills have Bums!
Bianca Freismuth yes
I live here
When my parents and I first moved to California in 1960 you could still swim and boat and fish on the Salton Sea. This is too sad.
Cassandra Morrison Yes.
Yep,that's where I learned to ski!
Thanks for documenting the areas that GTA V was based on.
Nash Potter is it really? Never looked into it
Trevor lives there
Sandy shores bro
@@keithgw2777 As soon as they started showing the roads I thought of Trevor.
I noticed the same thing lmao 😂.....GTA V is the shit I use to wonder about that place on the game lol like it must B real lol
I really loved that art though. Nobody else really seems to be talking about it! Even if you’re not religious you have to admit that cavern is breathtaking, so many colors and flowery things, it’s like a dream or something! Even the other artists did some great stuff, like the house with eyes or the giant man/monster thingy. All of that is so cool!
+Eadlyn June
I agree, 100%. I want to visit this place one day.
Looks more like Litter and graffiti and trash and chemicals dumped onto the earth
Only the eclectic can really appreciate it
+Aaron Malone
Well, I'm certainly that!
You have the gift of appreciation, come out here you’ll definitely love it.
It's amazing to see how a desert can preserve human structures.
Here in Canada rural towns are taken back by the forest in less then ten years sometimes.
Legit entire homes just swelled by plants when left alone.
FeedMeSalt that's insane!! Thanks for watching!
Yes it's fascinating to me the way nature takes these homes over!!
Egypt, for example.
@aston nex he can't. He's lying to you.
Explore Always keyword-trees
Coming back to this video, I just wanted to remark at how beautiful California deserts are. I always say this, but, it's like the sun just shines differently there. It's warmer, and softer.
It looks like a Mad Max kinda world.
Eric Ballard
It is.
They had to film that movie somewhere on Earth....
Probably the color grading
Maybe Slightly Annoyed Max
Lance Burley it was filmed in the australian desert, the second movie that had the 747 scene was actually a steel-mockup
I was there last year to visit a friend at Palm springs. That beach wreaks of death and rotting fish corpse. The most surprising part is that the ground you stand on is not Sand. Each step have a crunch sound. It's the bones and scales of the already decayed fish corpses.
The most metal beach ever.
*reeks
Jody Bruchon
Actually a heavy metal beach
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Mercury ,lead & whatnot
@@Heavywall70 Yes, one can really "rock on" at the Heavy Metal Beach.
This felt like something straight out of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’, strange and intriguing.
D.Tilly haha totally! Thanks for watching!
And the Salton Sea is just a few miles away from Palm Springs, California with some of the wealthiest people living in the World.
It amazes me that the odor of the Salton Sea can extend down through Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Cathedral City and all the other Desert cities on into Palm Springs and with such wealthy people living in the Coachella Valley area, nothing seems to ever get done to alleviate the problem. There have been times where the odor has reached into Riverside, California, over 80 miles away!
Sono Bono when Mayor of Palm Springs supposedly had a "cleaning up" of the Salton Sea high on his list of "things" to get done, but nothing happened and certainly hasn't happened since his untimely death.
I live in La Quinta and have never smelled the salton sea
We were hitchhiking through Palm Springs in the 70's and a friendly cop gave us a tour of the city. (and a ride to the outskirts!)
And Jerimiah Babe of RUclips fame
@@frederickmuhlbauer9477 More expensive home developments continue to be built not so far from the Salton Sea, but the Sea itself still smells as bad and is as much of an eyesore as ever.
I have lived in California for 29 years and never heard of this place. I have family in Riverside and never once heard of anyone mention it down there. This is some nutty stuff.
Crazy!!! Thanks for watching!
I lived in California for 20 years, and there are so many places that I, nor most other people have even heard of. Crazy shit, but hey; it's a big state, with a lot of nooks and crannies that have yet to be explored.
Check out the Sea something unique imo, I mean a freakin lake in the middle of the desert I didn’t believe until I checked for myself and it was well worth it
Seriously, I heard about this when I was 5
Most people I met in California had never been more than an hour from home.
My mom used to take me and my brother to the Salton Sea pretty often when I was young, back in the '60s, so I really enjoyed this video. She would spontaneously decide to go for a drive in the middle of the night, and I would fall asleep in the car. When I woke up, early in the morning, when the sun was just coming up, I would discover that we were parked at the Salton Sea. It was a lot of fun, actually. Excellent video! And great narration, too.
I take it looked better back then
It was a lot better back then. The last time I was there was around the mid 1980s, and it was already going downhill at that time.
Is that what happened to you? Because you like a dude dressed in drag.
Well, I wouldn't want people to mistake me for a dude dressed in drag, now would I, so I fixed my RUclips channel art just for you, Erik Lehnsherr. lol
wtf kinda comment is that?
This is so sad, in the 70's I truly enjoyed this place
how was it like ?
I was here in the 80's not bad then either
I was there in the 60's and it was very nice.
I went there during spring break. Felt like I was in Fallout 4.
This was beautifully put together
UGH IT'S JOE OMG IT’S JOE
the very best of luck to all the creative artists who reside there.
Unlike the actual man made sea!
David just called for you
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of camping and skiing at Bombay beach. My parents owned a lot at Salton City for many years before abandoning it to the tax liens. I hope that some day Salton Sea will once again rise up to at least it's former glory. But no hope of that occurring in my lifetime. Goodbye old friend!
I will retire to the Salton Sea at the age of 23
Ha ha ha shit been busting my ASS all these years and I could of retired in California? Damn.
Chris McCandless visited the Salton Sea before leaving the state on his trip to the end.
Skirmisher wow really? I went there in ‘65 our dad took us there. I hated it then and now as an adult I can see why.
Jakub Marszałek please dont
LOL
This is such a bummer of a video. I grew up in So Cal and the Salton Sea was a destination place to go in the 1950's. In 1958 I remember flying oiut to the North Shore air[port and it was a jumping place. Lots of fishing, sailing and just plane sunbathing. It was great. I remember water skiing and having a great time. My last visit was in 2000 and it was like visiting a cemitery. What a mess. Nothing but druggies and alcoholics walking around. The air stinks and there is NOTHING to do there. Just so sad!!!
Yes it has gotten really bad with zombies
1. Bath in the water
2. get skin problems
3. sue
4. profit
Heksu99
5. Use profit to pay for skin problems
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Welcome to the Hotel California. You can check in but you can never leave.
6. Die@@ExploreAlways
* Bathe
to take a bath, you bathe
My grandparents lived in a trailer park community called Salton Sea Beach.. my cousin still lives in that trailer on El Centro Ave. I remember going there as a child in the very early 70’s. The lake was just starting to turn bad, but it was still a very lively place with boating and fishing on the lake, and dune buggies and 3wheel ATVs in the desert. It really was an amazing place. We went back to visit grandma in 2009... very few ppl left in the community. It looked exactly like the area in this video. Sad to see it decay like this. :(
man, Grandma still lives there!!!! I mean sure she likes the community but the air quality is so bad ;(
Cool story and great memories, sounds like were about the same age. Man those just seem like the best times back then, seems like a whole different life time ago
Pauly m
Agreed. There was a vineyard not too far away. At the end of the picking season they’d let ppl go pick what was left. We’d get grocery bags full lol. Great place!
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA in the mid 70s and use to rent camper trailers from the rec center and pull them to the Salton sea, in the campground area they had spaces with camper hookups including water, elec, cable tv and a small bar/cafe. We would catch lots of Tilapia and throw them back but it was so much fun fishing. I am a black man and from getting in the water, i had a pure white film all over my skin. I went in the winter time once and it was about 35 degrees with a 35 to 40 mi per hr wind blowing. Ya talking about cold man we almost froze. Parts of an old night club building that had a balcony that extended out over the water and we were told that the Rat Pack (Frank, Sammy Dean) use to perform there. Sony Bono after he became a congressman worked hard to try to save and revive the sea but after his death not much was done. You could buy tracks of land that were measure off very cheap. Many people from San Diego would buy tracks and park a motor home on it to spend weekends and some retires would bring theirs and actually live out there for months at the time. Summer time temp gets up to 120 if you can handle that. Go check it out but hold your nose. lol
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My family used to go camping there in the late 1960's. It makes me sad to see this.
I went to Bombay Beach last February but I missed these other locations. Thanks for making this!
When I was a teenager in high school at La Puente High School my dad had a lot down at the Salton Sea in the 70s, had a trailer there and a dune buggy and a boat and the place sucked then it's stunk like seaweed and dead fish all the time. The only time I like being at the Salton Sea was when I got on that dune buggy and drove out into the desert and got away from the water.
Yeah, from what I heard, it was already past it's glory days by then. Shame. Even the photos from the early years look kinda lame to me... I mean, it's still flat dirt outside the water with dusty desert hotels... but it looks so sad after seeing so many people gathering there once.
Places like the Salton sea strangely don't get mentioned when people talk about government stewardship of water resources.
tiananman very true! It's a shame and a real tragedy. Thanks for watching!
It is not a water resource. It was an industrial accident in building a canal to take Colorado River water to San Diego. The side was ruptured and the water poured out for over a year, partly filling a dry depression 200 feet below sea level. There is no natural water inflow or outflow. After the canal was repaired, no one bothered to try to empty the accidental lake.
just like the west virginia rivers clogged with coal waste from private ventures
Its a hot topic in the Coachella Valley. It is a fly way for migrating birds. Outside of that SS is pretty much, not worth much.
Maybe you and I have different standards for what responsible resource stewardship looks like, but mine includes not creating an ecological mess as a consequence of diverting rivers.
This isn't the only example of California's disasters as a result of the experiment of diverting water to unsustainable coastal population centers, but it's certainly one of the most obvious. The question is: has California improved its stewardship since the Salton sea was created? Has the state learned anything? It's still diverting fresh water through deserts in order to prop up its coastal cities and farmland. There's basically no stewardship. Water gets sold to the lowest bidder/best politically connected zip codes.
The man who created the god hill, started working on it in the 80’s, and passed away in 2014. But his artwork will live on forever ❤️ and the people who live in slab city are probably the nicest people you’ll meet, from other videos I’ve watched. It’s their art❤️
Great mini doco, very well filmed and entertaining.
Brilliant job mate.
Anyone else get that GTA 5 vibe from 3:45 to 3:50? All I could picture was jumping that shit on the quad. Yes, I'm aware this is probably what it was modeled after.
No Here Kruger totally! Ocotillo Wells is not too far southwest of Salton Sea and is a popular spot for offroading. Maybe I'll have to go out there for a follow up video! Thanks for watching!
I'm sure that it was modeled after this area of CA. Salvation Mountain isn't far from that "jump". I love that jump with a quad
No Here Kruger I think it’s what gta based it off. Because they have the small trailer town, visitor center looks like the hospital you respawn at , the lake and debris is exactly the same , the salvation island is the alien thing , the big Molt wall in front of trailer where Trevor killed the guy in the beginning of his story. The train also.
Gonna say the same thing
DEFINITELY!
leads in with the line "150 your old engineering mistake".
never mentioned engineering again.
after googling, this sea is below sea level. and to the south is a massive possible flood plane that used to be the delta of the colorado river. while the sea itself is nearly 200ft below sea level, the earth barrier to the south (the ancient delta), is only 30ft above sea level in some places. easily low enough for a tsunami to over-run, should the gulf of california see an earthquake in the right place.
All of which sounds just about right. So you definitely get an A+ for research! But may I add: It's also a geologic disaster waiting to happen. Or, from another perspective, a really long-term opportunity...
The Salton Sea is located at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault system. However, instead of being a strike-slip fault (the Pacific Plate is sliding by the North American Plate) like the rest of the SAF, this area is spreading. Which means that the Salton basin is actually getting deeper such that one day the Gulf of California will come pouring in. Not just from a tsunami, but as a new extension of the gulf. And, of course, rising sea levels will only accelerate that process.
Which kinda means that all those resorts built around an evaporating, man-made oasis were actually not a mistake. They were just really premature.
But I believe that the engineering mistake that the narrator mentioned (and I too wish he'd expanded on...) was the actual creation of the Salton Sea itself. This happened in 1905 when an irrigation project gone wrong allowed the Colorado River to flow into the basin for a couple of years.
Anyway, it's a fascinating story and a very surreal place to visit. If you want to know more there's always the interwebs. But if you have an interest in more of the meta picture of how the West got green and why water matters I strongly recommend the book "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner. Prescient and a damn good read don't do it justice.
Cheers!
thank you man, was wondering wtf never got back to that statement
@cisa93 good ghat i live on the south side of america.
Soooo you're saying try and snatch up up some land there now... and just wait for it! We'll all look like geniuses!
When I lived there I would often find little seashells. The area was very obviously under water at one time.
Nothing about how it was accidentally created?
Basically making a man made river to take drive water into farms and aciddentaly making a lake
Watch the 'that is interesting' video
Antonio Perales del Hierro WTF??🥱🤪
I know! No explanation.
Captivating video. The music, cinematography, editing and narration all combine to create a superb piece. Oddly enough I have fond memories of fishing there with my Dad many moons ago; later, in young adulthood I went back and it was just as you described. Again, captivating and many thanks.
Arthur Djahani awesome! Thanks for watching!
In Maryland, our Salton Sea is called Baltimore.
Baltimore is the Caracas of the North.
Baltimore is really the weirdest city I've ever visited.
In Tennessee,our Salton Sea is called memphis
Pure Assassino Memfrica.
At least the Orioles are decent
My husband and I hit up the visitors center on the way back from Palm Springs. We walked out to the beach and the smell was horrifying. There were a couple of people actually FISHING there. The whole thing was nasty, but the sea was an interesting site there in the desert. The beach being totally comprised of shells and bones was really interesting.
Fun fact: did you know that the New River from Mexico runs into the sea? Raw sewage is dumped directly into the river near the border and further up and it runs north into America. At some point it hits a sewage treatment plan, but then it continues on INTO THE SALTON SEA. Yes, that is treated sewage running into the sea.
Amanda Vidri so that’s what it is
The Mexicans just keep shitting on us!
Shufei I’ve never watched Fox News a day in my life.
Amanda Vidri I think he was replying to Satch Mahoney. Either way, Satch is a troll who deserves to be ignored and not satisfied with a response.
The Salton Sea is Dowisetrepla ;)
6:45
“West Satan” lmao
Wow your videos are beyond amazing. I remember going to the Salton Sea as a kid in the 90s. It smelled so bad and had dead fish all over it beaches. Your video shots make this place look better than it is in person. Beautiful work!
I used to go fishing with my family when i was a kid in the late 70's. It is exactly the way you described it. BTW i'm originally from Orange County Ca.I live outside of ATL,Ga
My family and I visited The Salton Sea when I was a child in the early 1960's.
I have never forgotten the smell.
It definitely sticks with you. Like rotten eggs in a dirty diaper. O_o. Thanks for watching!
I think the camera work was great and so was the narration
Thanks for the tour ! Very good videography and narration !
GTA V “Sandy Shores” is modeled after this Saltan Sea
Nobody cares XD
I have side by side pic of a boat that’s in the game and on the beach
@@MAGISMAGZMM2 I Care
@@MAGISMAGZMM2 have u even played gta V before?
@@NiteStorm324 yes
So glad you went. So I never do.
its about an hour or two away from where im at, it's honestly such a weird place
@@hunaru308 I bet it is.. and if I were an hour away.. for a long time..I would eventually go see it.
The saddest part being the ecological disaster of it. The weird people part.. that's a personal choice thing.. and a source of pics of "outsider art."
@@madelinegutierrez2910 uh, if you do decide to go during the day lmao, and start to head back when the sun goes down, bunch of weirdos over there really
all in all, i don't really recommend this place, it smells, its hot as hell and its just an eerie feeling the whole time
@@hunaru308 I don't think ever in my life
will I be near enough, I live on the Atlantic Ocean, for long enough, I'd have to have seen and done everything within 3 hours away, to go there.
So thanks for the "heads up," hopefully helpful to someone else. ;)
A stay on San Quentins death row would be a couple pleasure notches above this wretched, hideous mess.
I just spent the entire day following your footsteps from this video. From the Salton Sea Visitor center to Salton City, I had an awesome adventures and would highly recommend this as a day trip for anyone in the area. Thanks for this awesome video and inspiration
David Maiolo awesome! Thanks for watching!
Dude how do you not have more subscribers? Keep up the great content!
Thanks for this very interesting video. I've heard of it for years but had no idea what the Salton Sea really is. As an amateur photographer, I'm naturally attracted to offbeat public art and decaying buildings, and I would now firmly believe the Salton Sea area to be a mecca for folks like myself. Thanks again, I really liked and learned a lot from your video.
jamasters62 awesome! Thanks for watching!
Your narration reads like a man terrified of leaving his comfort zone.
Well said, AGENTAEMES
Don't listen to AGENTARMES. The narrative voice was great and captured what I believe you intended to convey.
Kevin Klein you must be his boyfriend
You must be in your grandparent's incel-friendly basement posting about shadow banning.
Kevin Klein naw I’m in my town home on the beach, with my wife and kids.
Great cinematography
Kraysis thanks for watching!
NeverStopExploring very good.
Never Stop Exploring
I watch every Sea video that I find. The Sea mesmerizes me and I'd love to visit. This is definitely one of the better vids on the Sea!
Still trying to figure out how much fresh water goes in there naturally from the two river inflows...the Whitewater River on the noth end and the Alamo River on the south end.
Found out that Mexicali drains the city's sewage into it that's called the NEW RIVER eeeccchhh!! How can that be allowed by the U.S.? Is Imperial County being paid to take the poop/pee/etc? I've seen pictures it's basically an open trench.
Hey, from Denver!! 🙋
Alice Hallam awesome! Thanks for watching!!!
I went camping there in the 60's when I was a kid.Caught fish,paddled around in the sun.It was really nice.
Fantastic video!
I used to live in San Diego and would take the back roads to Laughlin, NV, for a break sometimes. There was a diner in Salton City that served up a great burger in what looked like a scene from an old sci-fi horror movie. They closed in the summer though, so had to make do with a date milkshake from the Arabic-sounding towns to the north. On the trip between the Salton Sea and Laughlin were other noteworthy stops like the abandoned town of Rice, and there used to be the Shoe Tree. The story behind the Shoe Tree is pretty sad. It was a joshua tree and people would put old shoes, among other things, on it. It was totally covered eventually. Then on one trip I went for my visit to see what new shoes had been added and someone had burned it down. The tree was probably hundreds of years old, perhaps over a thousand, destroyed in an instant by someone who could not understand what they were doing. California attracts some pretty horrible people.
And very weird people too.
That sucks. You should look in to the ancient giant trees that were cut down long ago. If you are in to that kind of stuff. It's very interesting.
I'm sorry but your comment brought up a well of emotion in me. I never thought I'd find such a comment on a random video I decided to watch. The Shoe Tree was beautiful, it really was. I promise I'll remember it forever even though someone decided to destroy it for future generations,. I'll always carry it's memory with me...
Many great trees have been lost in the California wildfires.
Also I forgot about all the date plantations around the Salton Sea! Guess the salty moist air is good for matching a Mediterranean climate.
The phrase "skeleton in the closet" suggests something bad that is being hidden, and yet you never give any explanation about what this place is or was, what happened, or really any context at all. I don't even know where in California this place is! Including a link to someone else's work explaining crucial details is lazy at best. The camerawork was pretty, but I got no substance from this because there was no "why."
He did mention it was an Irrigation disaster, but you're right, he could have added some more background about its location and history.
. . . . . You could look it up on a Map . I like to describe it as the North end of the Gulf of California ( if the Ocean level rose several feet )
"But where the Heck is the Gulf of California?!" it is the body of water between Baja California and Mexico .
They were building a canal and the canal wall and broke filled a low lying area! The sea became toxic because of the salt build up! Because there's no fresh water coming in and its slowly evaporating
I just know it's South and one of my friends went to salvation mountain
The real story is the river keeps changing directions, then when the lake was large enough the second time, after the first time it fully dried up, they dug a canal to the ocean where it then became salt filled and when the river changed directions again back towards the ocean, it is now in its recession again
Fantastic video
I loved it ❤️
Thank you for posting.
Absolutely fascinating and beautifully put together!
Reminds me of a Fallout scene! All it needs is a nuka cola machine.
you remember fallout but this desert is literally and actually existing in gta 5 where trevor lives.
Nah, fallout sucks. This desert is much better scene itself.
reminded me more of the most recent max max video game
Tim yep that's it Fallout and weapon dump
The Hills Have EYES!!!!
I've been to the Salton Sea many times. That place has always fascinated me. ☺
Great video! Thanks for your hard work on this. I want to see this place in person.
Well done video! You did an amazing job. I enjoyed seeing everything without having to drive in the hot weather and roads!Thanks!!
Random thought, but did anyone else get any GTA V Sandy Shores vibes from this video?
NoWrongInChickn that's what Sandy is based off of
Yes! Now watch the movie heat with al Pacino and Robert dinero
NoWrongInChickn Sandy shores is supposed to be this lol
Yepp
The Alamo Sea
When I lived in L.A., I had no idea of the history of the place. I think it was like 2002 I decided to ride my motorcycle to it for a nice ride. Needless to say, I was blown away when I got there and the first thing that came to mind was exactly how you described it: "A post-apocalyptic wasteland".
One of the better videos I’ve seen for this topic! Loved it!
Good video. I’ve been to all the same places and way more depressing then you can imagine. Salvation mountain is impressive.
This narrator could make a trip to the restroom interesting.
Haha, thank you! And thanks for watching!
I watched this video while taking a dump and found it interesting, so yes he could :P
That comment can be taken in various ways, some of which are disturbing.
@@profd65 I thought of it the disturbing way
yep, the DRONE footage is the DEAth scene of CHEMICAL WEAPONS DUMP leeching Into the SEA
... the gallows humor of the narration coupled with a matter of fact tone set against a current day post apocalyptic Southern California landscape makes this documentary an absolute joy and must watch.
WHY DID YOU LEAVE OUT ALL THE GREAT PLACES ALONG THE SALTON SEA??? ALL YOU DID WAS TRASH IT OUT
Breaks Are Optional it looks like a place that has given up on life rolled over and died
of course u would type that - you are as big an asshole as the guy who shot this - and his narration is like listening to dead people moaning. maybe the dead people are deeper in meaning. sheesh....white cis dudes.......gross
Great mini tour, thank you!
Very interesting video and well done, thanks for sharing.
Looks like a post-apocalyptic future akin to Mad Max.
I was thinking fallout
Gnolls Mad Max Waters is one of the liberal politicians who've turned California into Hell On Earth.
chris leonard a coincidence in namesakes I think not.
Looks like a Soviet ecological disaster area somewhat like the Aral Sea.
California is dying dude. It's become a wasteland.
Hey that's the lake in gta5. Wow the trailer park looks just like it and that art thing is in the game as well
Where?
Sandy Shores
Welcome.to Sandy shores
Sandy Shores is Bombay Beach. The dead fish on the beach are there and people drive in golf carts like in real life.
Yeah, I was amazed at how you can clearly recognize the place and know exactly what is around the next corner. Such detail!
Great video and an awesome ending with a positive message and the silhouettes of lovers walking into the sunset...very nice touch.
All the locations here look so surreal! Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for the weird trip man. Sort of depressing though.
Lol I live 20 minutes away from here 😂
This video kept popping up in my recommended list. I was going to click Not Interested (the Salton Sea has been done to death and most of the vids are quite boring), but managed to click on the video instead. Turned out to be one of the most interesting vids I've seen on the subject. Good job.
awesome, i'm glad you clicked on it! Thanks for watching!
Jejejeje.same here. It's actually really good. But I do wonder why it was recommended.
HOW do you click: "Not interested"? Is that like the FB dislike button?
WHY do all those oddball, off-topic videos pop-up in your RUclips 'Recommends' lists? Like an ad, they PAID for primo placement. Buying eyeballs + trawling for 'clicks.' Huge 'click' #'s means videos go viral, appearing in Popular' or 'Trending' categories. There, vids become self-sustaining + PAID placements no longer needed.
Visually Stunning! Very Nicely Done! Gods Speed in your travels 👍🇺🇸👏
As a kid in the late 1950’s we use to drive from San Diego to picnic. It was a nice place back than.
Literally took a trip to the Salton sea the other day (I live close by) I went with my best friend, he used to live there. N he was telling me all about, I voiced out how I wanna learn more about it. Fast forward to now, this video pops up on my recommendations.
DiegoVuitton I'm glad you found it! But I promise I'm not listening in on your convos. 😂🤟🏼
Pretty sure the latest UT version listens in on you. Lately when i have a discussion about something and my phone is near that subject immediately comes up. Its happened too many times to be coincidental.
@@michaelteeple8704 Literally happened to me today. I was talking to a friend about how she wants to buy goats to eat up the side of her over grown property. What shows up on my recommended videos? Goats eating a propery in a time lapse of 6 days. I don't think that was a coincidence.
law of attraction lol
You went there so I don't have to. Thank you.
there is more here around the sea that you didn't see in the video but not a lot more.
It's pretty cool
You should still go. It's a trip to see in person. There's so much more there.
Very well made - editing, photography, commentary and music. Nice work!
That was a great video!!! Thanks!!
I've watched probably over fifty RUclips videos about the Salton Sea for I live about 30 miles from it and I have to say this video has been my favorite. Good job!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing. I had no idea this existed. It was certainly worthy of your exploration.
User nyc You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
@@ExploreAlways watch the movie salten sea, how can I perchas land there cheep
Looks Like a fallout location
Good Place for a DLC
Y'know, I first heard of it when the show "Life After People" used it as an example of what some places would look like if the human race got wiped out. I guess the vision is pretty universal. It's darkly fascinating to see a once prosperous place abandoned.
Thanks for that! I've always been very very intrigued by the story of the Salton Sea.
Great documentary. Nicely done!
Posted the following as a response to a comment below but felt like posting it separately as well.
All of which sounds just about right. So you definitely get an A+ for research! But may I add: It's also a geologic disaster waiting to happen. Or, from another perspective, a really long-term opportunity...
The Salton Sea is located at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault system. However, instead of being a strike-slip fault (the Pacific Plate is sliding by the North American Plate) like the rest of the SAF, this area is spreading. Which means that the Salton basin is actually getting deeper such that one day the Gulf of California will come pouring in. Not just from a tsunami, but as a new extension of the gulf. And, of course, rising sea levels will only accelerate that process.
Which kinda means that all those resorts built around an evaporating, man-made catastrophe were actually not a mistake. They were just really premature.
But I believe that the engineering mistake that the narrator mentioned (and I too wish he'd expanded on...) was the actual creation of the Salton Sea itself. This happened in 1905 when an irrigation project gone wrong allowed the Colorado River to flow into the basin for a couple of years.
Anyway, it's a fascinating story and a very surreal place to visit. If you want to know more there's always the interwebs. But if you have an interest in more of the meta picture of how the West got green and why water matters I strongly recommend the book "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner. Prescient and a damn good read don't do it justice.
Cheers!
This is exactly what I came for, information about the sea itself. These human interest stories don't interest me if I don't have a solid grasp of the premise.
That's kind of scary 😧
I've bicycled along it's shores before, camping at the SRA. Bicycled to Niland to Slab City and through Glamis twice. One of the strangest but most interesting places in the country.
I passed through the Salton Sea area a couple times, back in the early 1980s. It was scorching hot and hauntingly beautiful.
Very very well done Sir! I like the color of this, mimicking mid-50's postcard look. I like the flow of this, fast, but not jarring. Thumbs up from southwestern Colorado
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
Man i feel bad for that park ranger girl
The idea that California spends money on the place is ludicrous. Poor girl is right. Does she have to toe the party line?
It's a paycheck...
I feel bad for the taxpayers who pay her !
Bet that hospitality center doesn't even have wifi... Poor girl probably went bonkers.
She would be happy to see someone.
Great video. I'm heading to Palm Springs in a few weeks and I'll make time to check it out.
It reminds me: My college friends (environmental engineering students) visited the Salton Sea during the 90's for a case study.
Please correct me if wrong isnt Salton sea located in southern cali? You're going to travel we l to salton sea after palm springs? Soinds like an adventure 👍
Thanks for the video. Heading here later this year while on holiday in LA. Can't wait to explore the area!
This video is awesome! I just found your channel and this is the "exploration" done right. Beautifully shot and colored.
You deserve so much more subscribers, I thought I was watching a video from a big channel. This video was high quality and very well made.
I definitley agree 100 percent !
Absolutely ! The video was great. Not too much, not too little. In thought it was very professional. I hope he continuesndoing these. As for all the negative people with their untasteful comments, keep it up ! He gets paid more for all of your silly comments. $$.
God damn his channel is exploding! I was here at 752 subscribers just a few days ago now he has 5k! And this video had 70k views now it has 500k!
Why didn't you relate more of the history of the formation of the Sea? The video itself is interesting, showing many of the sights around the Sea, but you're a little snarky about the reality. Those ponds at the SSTB were part of an experiment around 2000, to see if salt could be removed from the sea by accelerated evaporation. Wasn't efficient enough to continue.
Wow, interesting! I did not know that! I really do want to go back to the area soon and make a video more focused on the history of the sea. Thanks for watching!
Look up info from the U of Redlands, the Bur. of Reclamation, and A.C.E. on the SS work in late 90s and early 2000s. Lots of excellent science and engineering efforts to find ways to keep the birds, fish and humans able to use the SS. I attended several meetings, representing El Centro BLM, in La Quinta of the groups, and I was impressed with the sincerity of each group.
My thoughts exactly!!!
NeverStopExploring, FTR your narration was spot-on, in both tone and content. However I'm now totally depressed over the whole thing! Some time back we watched the movie "The Salton Sea" (documentary) and afterwards couldn't shake that feeling, the people were so stuck. I wish the doc makers would go back and follow up with the subjects they showed on the original film. Your video-doc is very good, and i want to see more. But you've saved me from my urge to visit in person!
There was/is one theory about digging a ditch from the Gulf to Salton Sea to keep the lake full of water. When it dries up completely it will be a disaster beyond anything that can be imagined for dear old L.A.
There are lots of people that would cheer when Cali becomes uninhabitable, but all of those survivors, (even the icky ones), will then move to your state, and then the disease will spread.
When I was a little boy my grandfather took me and my dad fishing on the Salten sea. I’m 63 now so this was about 1964.. He owned a 40 foot boat that we towed over from San Diego. The fishing was great . I hooked up before my bait touched the water. So many fish it was amazing. I don’t remember the species but we kept enough for both families and let the rest go. Every time I get near the Salten Sea I remember of what it was. It stinks horribly now. Dead fish rotting on the banks. Sad but true.
I use to go fishing there in the late 1960's with my Grandpa Dad and uncles, I believe we fished for and caught tons of corvina.
David Lanterman Corvina sounds familiar. It was really a great adventure.
Good to hear someone that really knew what saltin sea was about and how many good times were had there I have found memories also
I’m 2 years(almost 3) late, but this was a really great video. I never knew this place existed.
That was really nice brother I’ve seen a few documentaries about it but I still enjoyed yours
Awesome, thanks for watching!
I liked your mock travel video from the State of California, talking about the dying lake as if it was the Dead Sea in Israel. The only way I see a fix to this pollution problem is that if we have another accidental overflow of the Colorado River to fill it up again with 'fresh water', or wait till it fully dries out and go in with bulldozers to scrape off layers of the contaminated lake floor; I agree it would be a huge undertaking as the Salton Sea is a very large multi-acre area. After seeing your video, I would want to visit the caverns at Salvation Mountain and take in the art. Unlike other comments, I enjoyed your fast-paced narration and drone footage.
Great job on this video. What a place...
Thankyou for this Fabulous Account Of The Salton Sea!! I have learned a lot! And will become a Subscriber now!!
FYI: the Salton sea is almost as low in elevaton as death valley. Visited in the 60s, the big thing was you could float in the water.
"Salvation Mountain" had a nice cameo appearance in the movie "Into the Wild".
Rcbif it did! And it was an incredible movie. Thanks for watching!
I was thinking that but I couldn't remember for sure. Didn't he stay in a trailer in the trailer park "slab something?" too?
Yes itbdid. I liked that movie, the book was diff a bit from the movie but thats Hellywood!
Very well done. Thank you for posting this.