Drove through a couple of dust storms today. We left Indio and decided to see the Salton Sea. Which neither of us had ever seen. In Mecca on the way down had to almost stop the dust was so thick from the wind blowing it about. Stopped at the visitor center at the Salton Sea. Very interesting. A big mistake actually. Saw Pelicans and Egrets (white pelicans with black on the wings and the Egrets were tall and skinny). We did see what I think was Cattle Egrets just before we saw a gazillion cattle.
The Salton sea is very large. Takes awhile to drive around. When we headed west on Hiway 78 we ran into another set of dust storms. You could hear it rattling off the car. Dust? More like large sand grains. Car came through okay though. We stopped and took pictures of a strange bug. (See above)
As we got to the top of the pass we hit the rain. Lots of rain and lots of wind. Basically it washed the car of all the dust we got earlier. Almost a clean car as we drove into Oceanside. It is about 67° here in Oceanside. Sun is out but windy and the temp has not recovered from the rain and wind earlier in the day.
Time for the pool even if a tad cooler.
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