Day 900: Salton Sea, Day 14

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Ben

Happy Day 900! Today, after homeschool, I went for a bike ride to the next town north, Salton Sea Beach. The blocks closest to the shore are mostly ruins thanks to the Salton Sea floods of the 1970s:

Interesting yard ornament:

This afternoon, a bunch of pilots took to the sky. I’m in the upper left:

Folks were having fun on the ground too:

Landing:

Trish practiced kiting the wing:

I put M in the kiting harness:

I showed him how to do a forward launch, and after he brought the wing up, I pushed him from behind and he was flying down the beach about 3 feet above the ground:

Moonrise:

Day 898: Salton Sea, Day 12

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Ben

Not much to report for today, we caught up on a bunch of little things that needed doing.

Good Shabbos from the Salton Sea!

Day 897: Salton Sea, Day 11

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Ben

Today after homeschool I went out for flight #72:

I few over this neighborhood on the northern edge of Salton City. This little section has about eight blocks laid out with paved streets, but only one home:

Hi Trish!

Day 896: Salton Sea, Day 10

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Ben

This morning I went out for a flight. The PPC pilots were already up in the air:

Flight #70:

This afternoon, I went to the post office to pick up M’s geometry book. The Salton City post office is a room within the general store:

I went for a bike ride out to the airport and poked around this abandoned building:

This afternoon I went out for flight #71:

Yes, that’s all there is holding me up:

Bringing the wing down at landing:

Hello up there:

Trish did more crocheting tonight:

Day 895: Salton Sea, Day 9

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Ben

This morning M took his drone out for a flight. He’s getting quite good at flying it a good distance away without crashing:

After breakfast, we drove to the north shore of the Salton Sea to visit the Salton Sea State Visitor Center:

They say the water is safe. The die-offs of millions of Tilapia is normal, the say. I think I’ll stay out of it, thanks:

We continued around the lake to the east side where we parked the truck and hiked cross-country to the east in search of the caves in the aptly named Bat Cave Buttes:

There they are:

Looking back towards the Salton Sea:

We found a sizable colony of bats in this cave. We couldn’t get a photo of them, but there is an audio recording of their chattering at the bottom of today’s post:

After returning to the truck, we drove into Indio where we filled our empty propane tank for a shockingly cheap $1.69 per gallon. I was then dropped off a Don Gordo’s Laundromat while Trish and the kids did our grocery shopping. It just happened that Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays between 1pm and 3pm, the washing machines are half off, so that worked out well for us. After being picked up, we drove back to Salton City, stopping at the gas station to fill our 45 gallon water bag before heading back to the RV.

Trish made some more booties tonight, modeling them using B’s doll: