Salton Sea

Well sort of....these were carrying guns.

My family started going down to the Salton sea back around 1967, after we had spent several years camping up at Lake Hemet....If you remember we used to get in free there because my Uncle Leroy was a member of the US Forestry Dept.....I guess he got transferred down to the Salton Sea, cause that's where we all ended up during the summers of 67, 68, and 1969....I recall 69, was my last year there....I had joined the Navy and I had met my future wife there....Funny how I was in the Navy longer than I was married....Oh well, another story all together that is for sure.

But joining the Navy is one way how I found out about the Navy facilities at the Salton Sea....And after a little investigating we found out some pretty interesting things about the Navy and there stay at the Sea.....Something else we noticed was that Bombers would come in and make dry runs over the little Chocolate Mts to the south of the sea and actually were the eastern barrier to the green fields of the Imperial Valley, where they grew and still grow tons of sugarbeets and cane sugar.....All of that outflow from the fields is one of the reasons the present day Salton Sea is in danger of becoming a dead zone.