Journey to the Great Salt Lake Shore
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Book & the Dream
I am about to finish reading the book, The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, from the The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C. S. Lewis. I love it!
I already said this, but every chapter takes you to an incredible adventure. My very well known hobby is traveling and discovering new places, so I guess I am always looking for an exciting quest. The book practically describes those adventures that I used to dream about when I was a kid.
The Journey
Rodrigo, my friend from work, wanted to do something different and asked me if there was something to see in Salt Lake, I told him that contrary to what people believe, in my opinion the Great Salt Lake is the most interesting thing in the whole Valley.
It didn’t take much to convince him to go with me to explore one of the lake’s coast and our little trip reminded me a little of The Dawn Treader.
Desert of Salt
We started our journey walking through a small desert of salt trying to ignore the awful smell of the lake.
The ground looked brown instead of the white color of the salt. When we were close to the shore, the ground seemed to be moving. We discovered that those brown moving things were billions of insects called ‘ephydriadae.’
To avoid the strange insects, we started walking in the shallow waters. The whole shore was very shallow; the water wouldn’t get even to our knees.
Rodrigo wanted to walk to the deep part of the lake to swim to Antelope Island but after walking for several minutes and still in shallow waters, we decided to go back to the shore.
(Rodrigo walking in the Ghost Island)
The little Islands
On the way back, we found some mini-islands which we named Bird Island (because its shape resembled a bird), Trapped Whale Island (because it looked like a whale trapped in the beach, Stick Island (because we found sticks on it) Ghost Island (because you couldn’t see it until you were right next to it) and Twins Islands, a couple of small islands close to each other.
(Rodrigo showing proudly his very own ‘Rigo Island’)
When we saw them, both of us started racing to get to the little island first. Rodrigo got first to the bigger one and named it ‘Rigo Island’ I named mine ‘Little Island’.
Once in the beach, we walked to the Saltair (a castle-like building that a long, long time ago used to be a major summer resort )
On our way back, we found the strangest things.
Seagull’s Cemetery
Not too far from the water, we found some sort of ruins of an old house. There we noticed the huge concentration of salt. The smell was very strong there and the ground was very muddy making it difficult to walk.
Behind the ruins we saw hundreds of dead seagulls all around; it was disturbing.
But that wasn’t the only dead thing we found. We also saw some big dead fish (How did it get there? How a fish can survive in the salty lake?)
Other things that we found were an old rusted car, an abandoned boat, a person made of rocks in the ground and, what was most amusing to me, many holes of salt.
Our journey didn’t end there, but I’ll left the rest for another occasion.
Don’t miss the pictures !!(Click here)
Discover
Salt Lake City, Utah
Something good of living in Salt Lake City is that there is so many outdoors activity. And all is really close to downtown.
The other day my co-worker and friend, Rodrigo, and I discovered this park hidden behind the Capitol Building.
The Park is blocks from Downtown!!
I got a new camera!!!! it is better than my first one… My roommate Devin gave it to me. Thank You Devin!!!!
Here is Rodrigo trying to pass the trail with out falling to the river. He took 45 min, but he succeed. I guess thse self motivation seminars really helps!
