We are in SLC, also known as Salt Lake City. Well...on the outskirts of it, our requirement of a hundred-dollar motel was no tenable within the city limits unless we wanted to compromise pretty significantly on our standards, and we thought this was for the best.
Right as we first saw the Lake on our map it called us. It really did, so we went into a random state park, paid twenty bucks and chilled at the beach. AKy swam, I didn't because the water looked hella dirty and frothy. Not worth the twenty bucks but we did make a significant dent on the watermelon.
We were awed by the size of the great lake, water as far as we could see! So big! Then it turned out we were on a small corner cove of the body and had seen maybe half a percent or less of the waterhole in it's entirety. So truly, without any doubt it's great.
And for reasons very specific to this year, it's been greater than it has been traditionally. Because of various larger scale weather patterns as well as water-rights issues, the lake has been losing a lot of water and is under threat of drying completely in less than a decade. Which means the salinity levels have been way way high up and water levels quite low. This year though because of the heavy snowfall and rainfall in Winter and early spring, the lake has been blessed with an unseasonably high water level for this part of the year. As a result, it is greater than it would be, and less saltier than it has been.
SO yeah, the great salt lake is great but not as salty. For the time being.
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