Badwater - Death Valley

Badwater is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. Badwater Basin is a landscape of vast salt flats. The area got is name by a old miner going through the area. He stopped his donkey by the water to drink and the donkey refused. The miner put his hand into the water to taste it and said....bad water. The water is not actually bad, it is just salty.





This picture is opposite the salt flats. The mountain has a sign on it (look around half way up on the mountain). It says sea level. So you can get a perspective of how below sea level you really are.