Salton Sea. Jan 16th - 19th. 6 to 20 deg. sunny light breeze.

After leaving Sawtooth, we headed to Salton City, the PA there offers one night free if you stay three nights. We stayed three. Our route.

Jan 17th we went to El Centro, there is a Costco and a huge Walmart there. All stock up, we went back to the trailer and watched these guys for a while. Even got to sit outside till the sun went down, then it gets chilly.

As you can see, some have buggies, some just hang and one guy has one with two seats. 

Taking off.


Next day we checked out Borrego Springs and Ocotilla Flats, looking for a BLM site to camp at for a few days. We did not find anything we liked, so we are going to Ogilby next. If you are an ATVer, then Ocotilla Flats is the place for you. Too much dust and noise for us. Some of the Ocotilla are in bloom though.

Up a BLM road, looking back at Borrego Springs.
On our way back to the campground, we found a guy selling fresh dates, I bought four pounds. They are very good. 

Back at the site, we watch these guys practise controlling their parafoils .





 
 
 We ran into the guy with the two seater, he thought it would be good to take our picture sitting in it. Not a good picture but you get the idea. He even had to take it out of his trailer to do this.

This size of motor powers a lot of small aircraft, lots of power.

Time to pack up. I don't think there is cell service at Ogilby, will update when I can.

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