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Took a Fall 2007 trip to California ( Palm Springs, Indio and Cerritos (LA area) for a ukulele fest). Visited Josha Tree National Park very briefly and the Palm Desert area as well as the beach at Huntington Beach. On my list of places to see in Southern California are The Salton Sea and surrounding areas
This page contains links and information to things that we did do and didn't get to do. Maybe next time.
The State of California is the most populous state of the United States. Located on the Pacific coast of North America, it is bordered by Oregon, Nevada and Arizona in the United States, and Baja California in Mexico. Its capital is Sacramento. The state's four largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco. California is known for its diverse climate and ethnically diverse population. The state has 58 counties.
Alta California was first colonized by the Spanish Empire in 1769, and after Mexican independence in 1821, continued as part of Mexico. Following one brief week as the independent California Republic in 1846, and the conclusion of the Mexican-American war in 1848, California was annexed by the United States and was admitted to the Union as the thirty-first state on September 9, 1850. More at WidipediA: California
Cities, Towns & Areas
- Cerritos - LA
- Huntington Beach
- Indio - Palm Desert Area
- Palm Springs - Palm Desert Area
- Joshua Tree - High Desert Area
- The Salton Sea and surrounding areas
Palm Desert Area
The Coachella Valley in Southern California
Indio
The Coachella Valley
Riverside County
City Hall and Council Chambers
100 Civic Center Mall
Indio, California 92201
Phone: (760) 391-4000 (Administration)
Links
- City of Indio
- WidipediA: Indio
- Indio Chamber of Commerce
- Indio, California: DesertUSA
- Southwest Arts Festival (January)
Info
The City of Indio is located on the east end of the beautiful Coachella Valley about 130 miles east of Los Angeles on Interstate 10. Among the neighboring Coachella Valley cities located west of Indio are Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells and La Quinta with Coachella located on the east end of the Valley.
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Palm Springs
The Coachella Valley
Riverside County
City of Palm Springs
3200 East Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, California 92262
Telephone 760.323.8299
Links
- City of Palm Springs Official Site
- City of Palm Springs Official Site - NEW
- WidipediA: Palm Springs
- The Desert Sun (local newspaper)
Info
Hollywood discovered Palm Springs as early as about 1919. The desert was considered a choice filming spot for many silents, and stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Ernest Torrence, and Theda Bara could be easily spotted in town. Since then, Palm Springs has become known as "The Playground of the Stars." Many have had homes in the City or have stayed at famous places such as the El Mirador Hotel and Charles Farrell's Racquet Club. Spotting a movie star walking down the street, shopping or in a restaurant was a common occurrence.
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More Palm Desert
- San Jacinto Peak
San Jacinto Peak is the highest peak in Riverside County, California. It is part of the San Jacinto Mountains, and lies within Mount San Jacinto State Park. To the east, the peak towers over the city of Palm Springs; to the west, it borders the mountain community of Idyllwild. The peak is also frequently named Mount San Jacinto. The steep escarpment of its north face, above Snow Creek, climbs over 10,000 feet (3 km) in 7 miles (11.3 km). This is one of the largest gains in elevation over such a small horizontal distance in the contiguous United States.
- Notes from the Road, Travels in Country and City by Erik Gauger - Desert Southwest
Notes from the Road is a project in experimental travel writing - it is about subjective travel; the kind of real world of random things and real people.
Salton Sea
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Tilapia Film L.L.C.
1588 Hayes Street, #2
San Francisco, CA 94117
Tel: (310) 497-6005
About Tilapia Film
Based out of both San Francisco and Los Angeles, TILAPIA FILM is a film collective that has created music videos, EPKs, interstitials, and documentaries for clients as varied as: Atlantic Records, Arista-Nashville, Capital Records, Geffen Records, ABC, Comedy Central, Current TV, Fox, Noggin, Documentary Channel, PBS, and the Sundance Channel.
TILAPIA FILM consists of filmmakers, Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, Josh Kurz, and Lev Anderson who in traveling the USA, are attempting to capture the unseen corners of America. Exploring what others have determined to be failures and finding out what happens when they’re wrong.
Links
Tilapia Film is a collective of non-fiction filmmakers who use damn good music, stylishly funky graphics, and offbeat unique subjects to highlight environmental, cultural, scientific, and just plan “weird” issues of contemporary America.
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Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
“Weird and wonderful!” - The New Times
“A heartbreaking, sidesplitting parade of humanity.” - Village Voice
(from their press kit) Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state as a decaying, forgotten ecological disaster. From wonderland to wasteland, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA captures a place far more interesting than the shopping malls and parking lots of suburban America, a wacky world where a beer-swilling Hungarian Revolutionary, a geriatric nudist, and a religious zealot building a monument to God all find solace and community.
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The Salton Sea
Imperial County
Imperial Valley
Califorina
Proposed Plan for Cleanup
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Writer puts Salton Sea on the map.
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
IT WAS high noon and the sun was throwing a harsh light over the foreboding landscape that faces the Salton Sea. The place was infernal, over 111 degrees in ...
Here is some related links on what happens when water rights are diverted from an area
Links
- WidipediA: Salton Sea
- The Salton Sea Chronicles
This blog offers hard-hitting editorials, Salton ephemera, fictional stories, and whimsy related to the Salton Sea.
- The Salton Sea, A Desert Saga
This is a great history of the Salton See. A 10 minute excerpt from a longer 60 mini video.
- Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Offbeat, quirky film by Tilapia Film of San Francisco. Worth buying the DVD. Narrated by John Waters.
- Salton Sea Authority
- Salton Sea - Regain The Glory
This is a MySpace page by a Salton Sea resident that is kept up todate with news on the doings of trying to clean this mess up.
- Salton Sea 101 By Steve Horvitz Superintendent, Salton Sea State Recreation Area
This site dispels the misinformation and myths about the Salton Sea.
- The Salton Sea, CA (DesertUSA)
- Salton Sea West
- Salton Sea Coalition
- The Salton Sea, California high resolution virtual tour
- National Geographic Magazine - Salton Sea
- Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
- Salton Sea @ National Geographic Magazine
- Greetings from Salton Sea by Kim Stringfellow
- The Shaky Future of the Salton Sea from Scripps Institute of Oceanography UC San Diego
A former desert oasis faces environmental challenges, a water crisis and someday the Big One. Why we can't let the sun go down on the Salton Sea.
- Pacific Institute Salton Sea Information Page
- by the Desert Sea - Alicia Wazelaki
The Salton Sea is a photographer's dreamscape, boasting some of the most stunning images you'll ever see, both natural and man-made.
- Salton Sea Roadtrip
- Salton Sea - Ghost Town Lake in the California Desert
- Notes from the Road, Travels in Country and City by Erik Gauger - Desert Southwest
Notes from the Road is a project in experimental travel writing - it is about subjective travel; the kind of real world of random things and real people.
- The Salton Sea Database Program (SSDP) at the University of Redlands, Redlands Institute (RI)
- Linkin Park - LPTV Episode 12: Salton Sea
The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake, occupying the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink, part of the larger Colorado Desert in Southern California, north of the Imperial Valley. The lake covers a surface area of approximately 376 square miles (974 km²), making it the largest lake in California. It varies in dimensions and area due to changes in agricultural runoff and rain. It averages 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km). Its maximum depth is 51 feet (15½ m)
Info
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Salton Sea Authority
78-401 Highway 111
Suite T
La Quinta, CA 92253
Phone: (760) 564-4888
Fax: (760) 564-5288
Links
Info
(from their site) - The Salton Sea Authority has recognized the Sea's challenges and has begun the restoration process, to not only sustain the Sea, but also revitalize it as an environmental and economic wellspring. The Salton Sea Authority, along with the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, has begun efforts to maintain the Sea as an agricultural drainage reservoir, restore the wildlife resources and habitats, stimulate recreational use, and provide an environment for economic development.
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Salton Sea Coalition
1303 J Street, Suite 270
Sacramento, California 95814
Tel. 916.313.5800 x106
Fax. 916.313.5812
Links
Info
(from their site) - The Salton Sea Coalition is comprised of 13 organizations of varied interests and backgrounds that have joined together to support and advocate for the protection and revitalization of the Salton Sea -- an important part of California's natural, cultural and agricultural heritage. The Coalitionís environmental and recreation groups, as well as two local tribes, represent more than 1.3 million people.
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Links
Info
( from listing's site ) - The Salton Sea Mobile Home Park is located directly on the north-west shore of the Salton Sea, approximately 40 miles south-east of Palm Springs. It is an adult mobile home park, offering the best in adult living and desert activities. We are offering new mobile homes and R.V. park models for sale, close to desert casinos, desert sports, activities, and recreation areas. RV's welcome!
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California Towns, Cities and Places
Totally random selction of California Places and Information
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Cerritos
Cerritos City Hall
Cerritos Civic Center
18125 S. Bloomfield Avenue
Cerritos, California 90703
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Links
- WidipediA: Cerritos, California
- City of Cerritos Official Website
- Cerritos Chamber of Commerce
- Southern California Ukulele Festival
The Southern California Ukulele Festival is held each year in Cerritos, CA. This is the main reason for your first trip out west. Had a great time and look forward to each year and other ukulele festivals out west.
Info
Cerritos is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County. It was incorporated on April 24, 1956. The current OMB metropolitan designation for Cerritos is "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA.
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Huntington Beach - Surf City USA®
Orange County
Southern California
Links
- City of Huntington_Beach
- WidipediA: Huntington_Beach
- WidipediA: Huntington Beach Pier
Info
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in southern California. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 189,594. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by Seal Beach on the north, by Costa Mesa on the south, by Westminster on the northeast, and by Fountain Valley on the east.
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Joshua Tree
San Bernardino County
PO Box 600
61325 29 Palms Highway, Suite F
Joshua Tree, California 92252
Ph: (760) 366-3723
Fx: (760) 366-2573
Links
- Joshua Tree Chamber of Commerce
- Joshua Tree National Park Official Web Site
- Wild West Coyote Fest (October)
- WidipediA: Joshua Tree, California
- Hi-Desert Star Community Newspaper
- The Sun Runner The Magazine of California Desert Life & Culture
Info
About Joshua Tree, California
Joshua Tree is nestled in a segment of the Southeastern California’s Mojave Desert, thirty-five miles from Palm Springs, California off the I-10 freeway on State Route 62. Joshua Tree is the gateway community to the West Entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, an 800,000 acre wilderness preserve, with groves of Joshua Trees, incredible multi-colored, gigantic boulders and some the best rock climbing in the world!
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Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival - October
Joshua Tree Music Festival - May
PO Box 2205
Joshua Tree, CA 92252
Phone: 877 . 327 . 6265
Fax: 877 . 327 . 6265
Links
Info
The 3rd annual Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival is happening OCT 18-19, '08
The 6th annual Joshua Tree Music Festival is happening May 16-18, '08
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California Links
Links
- www.mydesert.com
- WidipediA: The Desert Sun
Info
(from their site) - The Desert Sun was first published Aug. 5, 1927, as a free weekly newspaper printed in Banning and staffed by one person, Carl Barkow. The newspaper's first Palm Springs office was in the Palm Springs Water Company facilities. The newspaper then sold for 5 cents or $2.50 for a year's subscription.
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Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
One Tramway Rd.
Palm Springs, California 92262
Phone: 760-325-1391
Toll Free: 888-515-TRAM
Fax: 760-325-6682
Links
- www.pstramway.com
- WidipediA: Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
Info
(from their site) - A seven-member Mount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority, a public agency and public corporation of the State of California, is the governing body of Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.
This shot of the valley floor from the Top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway,
shows the Coachella Valley and the Palm Springs Airport.
On a clear day you can see the Salton Sea, approximately 50 miles away.
(from WidipediA:) The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, California, opened in September 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the Coachella Valley to near the top of San Jacinto Peak. Prior to its construction, the only way to the top of the mountain was to hike for several hours from Idyllwild.
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Links
Artist Info
(from artist's site) - Professor at: School of Art Design and Art History & San Diego State University
Greetings from the Salton Sea
By Kim Stringfellow
The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings...to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground.
Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.
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Trixi Huish Photography
3155 E. Patrick Lane Suite #1
Las Vegas, NV 89120
Las Vegas: (702) 556-2210
Palm Springs: (760) 251-0502
Links
- www.trixihuish.com
- YouTube The Salton Sea, A Desert Saga
The 10 Minute Version of the ecological issues surrounding the Salton Sea Of Southern California. for 60 min version bret@huishproductions.com 10 min. version available free for schools (shipping and handling of DVD only cost)
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(from their site) - Trixi Huish Photography is based out of glamorous Las Vegas, Nevada but seldom land there long enough to do more than a few shoots and then we’re off again. Our goal is to travel and follow the stories and the needs of our clients. We would be proud to welcome you to those ranks.
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Links
The Salton Sea, Califormia - By The Desert Sea
click on image to play in YouTube
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More Links
- California Coastal Records Project - an aerial photographic survey of the California Coastline
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Wind chill is the apparent temperature felt on exposed skin, which is a function of the air temperature and wind speed. The wind chill temperature (often popularly called the wind chill factor) is always lower than the air temperature, except at higher temperatures where wind chill is considered less important. In cases where the apparent temperature is higher than the air temperature, the heat index is used instead.
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A good example of the difference between heat index and true temperature would be comparing the climates of Miami and Phoenix. Miami averages around 90 °F in summer due to the easterly trade winds coming from the Atlantic Ocean, but it has a high humidity (e.g. 75%). Phoenix averages around 104 °F in summer, but typically has a low humidity (e.g. 10%). According to the heat index, the relative temperature in Miami will be 109.5 °F, but the relative temperature in Phoenix will be lowered due to the lower humidity, to around 98.6 °F. Given clear skies, Miami is likely to feel hotter than Phoenix.
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