Ancient water fills this pool year
round. Much of it began as ice age snow and rain hundreds of miles away in the
mountains of central Nevada. The runoff
seeped into porous limestone bedrock and began a long underground flow through
a regional conifer. It merges her at Badwater along with the fault line at the mountain’s
base. Salts dissolve from old deposits and flow to the surface, making the
spring water “bad.”
Badwater
Basin is the lowest point in the United States at 282 feet below sea
level.
Here’s a close-up of the water. Apparently, a very rare water snail lives in this water and you are not allowed to get nearer to the water than the boardwalks.
This is a close-up of the ground that
is off the hard-packed salty surface in the next photo.
You can actually walk out quite a way
into the basin on this hard-packed, salty surface.
After that amazing day visiting Mesquite Dunes, Harmony Borax Works, Furnace Creek Visitor Center, Golden Canyon, Artist Drive and Badwater Basin, we were blessed with this amazing sunset. I took pictures as it developed so you could see how the colors deepened as the sun continued to set over the mountains.
And, finally, the sun has set and now
the sky has this sephia look to it. A
perfect black-and-white photo!
Revelation 22:1-5 // Then he showed me a
river of the water of life, clear as
crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its
street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds
of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for
the healing of the nations. There will no
longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and
His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be
on their foreheads. And there will no
longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the
light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign
forever and ever.
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