We spend a couple days at Salton Sea. It is this giant salt lake in the middle of the desert. Very much the middle of nowhere. They claim great birding, we are just behind the major migrations though so didn’t see anything too impressive.
The main problem, at least for me, is that it stinks. There is a lot of standing brackish water and it just smells bad. Add the fact that this is a major bird migration flyway and they just had 10,000s of Snow geese, pelicans and many smaller fowl spend a few weeks here! Phewee! Fortunately for us it was breezy most of the time we were there but it was still tough to ignore. We had our first 90 degree day while we were there so the windows were open all night too. Better than the Great Salt Lake when we were last there, at least the beaches here were not covered with bugs! Still, we probably won’t be heading back any time soon.