As the waters of Lake Manly recede, channels are revealed that ferried the water down the gentlest slopes towards the lowest point in North America. Though walking across the salt flat and the channels the difference in depth was virtually imperceptible, the reflections of the salty water’s surface were anything but. While exploring newly minted salt crust, I turned back towards the direction I had wandered from to find this lovely alignment with the mountain reflection in the channel. The Black Mountains here in the morning light were looking a little less black than they were just a short time before when they were enveloped in shadow. It will be fascinating on future visits to see how the salt flat changes. While the changes are not especially fast, they are quite profound here over time as the water and the mud and the salt crystals ebb and flow with evaporation and crystallization.
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