Death Valley - Stop #1: Devils Golf Course

Devils Golf Course:  from afar it looks like a field freshly labored, from close I realized it was not soil but crystallized salt blocks that I was looking at. There used to be a lake up here some 2000 years ago (yes I know, that’s hard to believe there was a lake in what is today the Death Valley). The lake dried out leaving the salt behind that crystallized giving this crazy field.

In the brochure they claim that if you listen carefully on warm days, you may hear “a metallic cracking sound as the salt pinnacles expand and contract”. Hum… I’m very doubtful and anyway with the wind we had today we could barely hear ourselves talking, so hearing the salt cracking…