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IMGP7306 Mono Lake 6

Mono Lake is 3 times more salty than the sea. Living in it are mostly algae and brine shrimp. Nothing else survives there. On land life alkaline flies that lay eggs that hatch into larvae in the lake. The around 200 indians living before 'we' arrived here ate the flies' pupae, pine nuts and rabbits. The miners from Europe cut down the trees and settled next to the fresh water springs making the natural life impossible.

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Uploaded on December 31, 2006
Taken on December 29, 2006