1111. Mono Lake, California
Image courtesy of @karl_shakur
You can see Mono Lake in Mono County, California. This saline soda (carbonate-filled) lake is situated amidst a foreboding landscape of dry hills, dusty desert, and old volcanic craters on the eastern side of the famous Sierra Nevada.
Researchers report that this lake was created more than 760,000 years ago as “a terminal lake in an endorheic basin.” Since it does not have an outlet, a lot of salt accumulates here. Thus the water is alkaline. Still, the ecosystem here is quite productive. The lake is actually a habitat for approximately 2 million migratory birds annually that feed off the shrimp and alkali flies living here.
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Yes! I lived there one summer and have visited it several times before and after that.