La Sal del Rey

 

 

(The King’s salt.)

 

The lake was very white today.  It’s an evaporative lake.  It has been very dry here lately.  Several intermittent inlets.  No outlet.  It sits on top of a giant salt dome.  Hypersaline at least.  Solid salt on occasions like this.

 

 

 

I like how water blows into the animal tracks along the shore, then evaporates to white.

 

Deer, nilgai (deerlike exotics), javelina, wild boar.

 

 

This is breeding territory for snowy plovers.

 

They nest in the sand along the shore.  No closeups today.  A couple very distant shots with a long lens.  Don’t want to disturb them.

 

 

This is the plover crouched down in a sandy depression.  It might be the nest, it might be diversionary behavior.  We’ll let that question remain unanswered.

 

 

And a raccoon track in the center of this frame.

 

They have hands on their feet.