Mono Lake, CA

Mono Lake is one of the most unusual lakes in North America and considered to be one of the oldest in the western hemisphere. It is believed that the lake was formed over 750,000 years ago and sediments located below the ash layer suggest that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah.

The hyper salinity and high alkalinity of the lake, means that no fish are native to the lake. The lake is famous for a tiny species of brine shrimp that are found nowhere else on earth. During the warm summer months, an estimated 4 to 6 trillion inhabit the lake. Brine shrimp are not eaten by humans, but are an important food source for the millions of birds that migrate to the region.

Mono Lake is known as an important resting and eating stop for migratory shorebirds with nearly 2 million waterbirds and 35 species of shorebirds depending on Mono Lake to rest and eat at least part of every year. A few species spend several months nesting in Mono Lake and California gulls nest there and in the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Mono Lake is absolutely stunning in its raw beauty and is immense in size, filling a natural basin with approximately 695 square miles in size. The most distinctive features of Mono Lake are the eerie and unusual “Tufa” towers, which are mineral structures created when fresh water springs bubble to the surface through the alkaline waters of the lake.

We visited Mono Lake’s South Tufa beach and while we didn’t see any brine shrimp along the shore line, there were hundreds of alkali flies, which live along the shores of the lake and walk underwater encased in small air bubbles to graze and lay their eggs. If you are in the area of Highway 395 south of Reno and north of Mammoth we highly recommend you stop and take the tour at the South Tufa, where you will see one of the largest Tufa groves on the lake. Be sure to take your camera or no one will believe how truly unusual this wondrous place is!

The photograph above taken at (Mono Lake California).

Robert Swetz headed out to capture the beauty of Nature

Another weekend off and I am very excited about getting out of the city, breathing some fresh air,taking some beautiful photographs like the ones on this post, writing some pages for my new book and relaxing my body & soul with some natural meditation.

All of us live in different areas of Natural beauty that God has created for us. For me Nature and Beauty are my "Happiness" and that is why I continue to post with photographs.

I post photographs about different places to show possible reasons people may want to relocate or move to these areas.

As everyone knows my favorite areas of beauty are Northern California, Alaska, Oregon,Washington State, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico and more.

I have already planned a very serious vacation overseas in countries like New Zealand, Australia, Thailand and China and I will have around three different cameras in hand.

So until then please enjoy the beauty of these photographs taken in United States of America.

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This photograph above was taken at (Cross Lake Minnesota) at sunset.

This photograph above was taken in (Alamo Nevada) at a huge "Wildlife Lake" full of many different birds.

The photograph above was taken at (Mammoth Lakes California).

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This beautiful photograph was captured on my drive between Mammoth Lakes & Mono Lake California. It is a huge Male Elk with around 20 young just taking a break so Robert Swetz (Vegas Bob) could capture them in their moment.

I almost missed this shot and did a double take as I turned my car around, very rarley are you able to view such a sight in the wide open and this is not a farm these are wild Elk.

"Have a wonderful day after the long weekend"

PS - Could this be a morning meeting of a Broker and his Agents?

Photograph by Robert Swetz - Mono County California between Mammoth Lakes & Mono Lake

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Mono Lake California by Robert Swetz 5-15-2009

Can anyone at Activerain please help Vegas Bob?

This post is about Real Estate so I am coming to my friends and members at Activerain.

Growing up in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes I am always interested in properties on Lakes, Rivers or the ocean. I own a lake lot in northern Minnesota 90 miles south of Canada and the view looks very similar to this photograph (above).

Nu Nu and I have not been back to Minnesota in over seven years to spend any time at our lake lot. I have decided to sell it because we never go by to Minnesota for visits and it is to far away. My brother went to look at our lake lot and take some photographs so I can advertise the property better.

I have another property for sale - 11.2 acres in Dyer Nevada 5 hours north of Las Vegas.

My dream is to some day purchase a building lot over looking the ocean some where North of San Fransisco. But for now I would settle for a nice building lot in California like the one in the photograph.

I am not planning on moving from Las Vegas, I am just looking for a place to get away on the weekends and hot summer days.

I also like river properties!

If anyone can help me find a lake property like the one above or help me sell some of my properties it would be very much appreciated!

Robert Swetz (Vegas Bob)

photograph taken by Robert Swetz - (Mono Lake) California 2009

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