The Great Salt Lake

Absolutely beautiful!  We drove out to Antelope Island, reputed to be the best place to experience it, and were not disappointed.  We saw thousands of grebes on the waters as we drove the 6 mile causeway onto the island, and bison roaming free, often close to the road.  We even spotted a couple of antelope.

This is the highest concentration of salt water in the world, because water flows into the lake, but not out, and therefore evaporates, leaving high concentrations of salt.  Sometimes several feet thick!  It can be 8-10 times saltier than the ocean, and in fact one explorer, having tasted it, assumed he had reached the Pacific.