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San Francisco's Multicoloured Salt Ponds

By Queuebot in Travel & Places on Jul 10, 2009 at 12:57 pm



The beautifully colored patches that you see here are in fact salt evaporation ponds that can be seen when you are flying over San Fransico Bay. Find out what causes these colors, see more pictures. and find an interactive Google Map at Killer Web Directory.

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(image credit: Flickr user Jerry Ting)

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  1. Chris K.
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    I always wondered what the heck those were when I'd fly over. You learn something new every day.

  2. kyle
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    yea i got the best view of them not taking off from san francisco but actually on my plane from san jose to denver i was wandering what they were

  3. Alex
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Oh, I thought San Francisco was playing Pandemic 2.

  4. zav
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    San Francisco, not San Fransico. Please set up a spell checker for article posts.

  5. dmakar
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    I guess I picked the wrong time of day to fly into SFO. Here are my Salt Flat photos from a couple months ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmakar/3497965811/in/set-7215761756671705 7/

  6. ozoozol
    Jul 11th, 2009 at 8:40 am

    I grew up in Union City (zoom out twice and show labels on the Google map). Those pictures make me sentimental. I wouldn't call these San Francisco's salt ponds, though. They're the San Francisco Bay's salt ponds.

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