Not sponsored by or affiliated with Google
Thursday, 7th April 2005 by
More weird patterns and colours here with some pollution controlling algae salt ponds in the San Francisco Bay and some salt pools potash mine run-off pools in the Utah mountains. (Via)
Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.
Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…
Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
Advertisement
I believe the San Francisco Bay photo shows the Cargill salt solar evaporation ponds (with algae growing in them): http://www.cargillsalt.com/sfbay/T_solar_intake.html
Those aren’t salt pools in the Utah shot. They’re tailings from a potash mine near Moab – the mine and mill can be seen nearby.
Here’s some ground-level photos (the last three pics in the second row):
http://photos.3scape.net/dir/37/110
hehe, that was my search I posted last night – how did it end up here? fipi lele only knows.
WEIrd spelling
I second the post by Salty. Those are salt ponds, not pollution control ponds, in the San Francisco Bay.
As the water evaporates and the salinity increases, the algae change color from green to pink. Flamingos eat these algae and turn pink themselves. No, really!