The Solton Sea is a large salt water artifical lake in southern California. Originally it was a desert valley only 1.5m less deep than Death Valley. It is an interesting place, particurly a little 5 km little area around Mullet Island.

Within a compact 5km disk area you can find a large, steaming, gurgling, splashing, spitting, burping mud pond. A strangely beautiful sci-fi movie alien landscape filled with cormorant nests (Mullet Island). Some cool looking ruins of a hot springs spa, and mud volcano park (Davis-Schrimpt Seep Field).

The mud pond is the most interesting. It's about the area of large house. Mud is being continuously spit into the air. It looks like witch's boiling stew. The steam has a weak sulfur smell to it. From what I've read there are many CO2 seeps in the area, so the mud pond gasses might contain a lot of CO2.

1 km northwest of the bubbling mud ponds is the strange and beautiful Mullet Island. Currently it is no longer an island, and easy to walk to. There is one of most unique and beautiful landscapes I have ever seen. Sharp cliffs faces surrounded by a sea of blue.