Salton Sea / Bombay Beach, California.

The Salton Sea, located in the southeastern corner of California, is actually a lake which occupies a desert basin known as the Salton Sink. This body of water covers a surface area of 376 square miles, making it larger than Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake. In fact, the Salton Sea is the largest lake in California. The Sea was created by a flood in 1905, in which water from the Colorado River flowed into the area.

Bombay Beach is a small town on the east shore of the Salton Sea, the ruins of Bombay Beach attract many photographers and visitors. Sunken trailer park - at the south end of Avenue E. In the 1980s, the water level of the Salton Sea rose and fell several times. The town of Bombay Beach was partially inundated by these fluctuations and a berm was built on the south end of town to prevent further flooding. The remains of a trailer park can be seen with some of the buildings and trailers half-buried in mud.