 Well, ladies and gentlemen boys and girls we're gonna stop by Bombay Beach again in my videos. I think I've stopped here before Clara's quizzing Claire on the way down. I was like Claire. You want to see the water? Yeah And then I told her I said well Do you know what you're expecting to see or what you're about to see when you go down to the water's edge? And she's like is that the one place? Yeah, it is so here we go. Let's go through the neighborhood. Let's show you a It's almost like a ghost town that's habitated. Did I say that right? It's I don't know. It's cool. It's funky. It's weird. It's different and It's like a functioning ghost town. That's all I can say Actually, you know what you can also say is it's almost like a tornado went through a Like a meth trailer park It is but you know it used to have this luster back way before our time and It used I don't know the idea of the salt and sea was an accident that was gonna be turned into like the California Riviera, but It didn't quite turn out like that, you know usually Some really inexpensive places cities is what I've noticed around the country Once the artist moves in the artists move in to the area makes a property values go up we just stumbled upon this gem of a place on Avenue D and 2nd Street and Bombay Beach. It looks like actually some younger kinds of people over here and Looks like they're probably artists because I would imagine this is what they do to make money and Cheap real estate if you're an artist, that's a great combination here. So who knows maybe these guys are pioneers out here This is definitely up a pneumatic fanatics alley Again, like I was saying I haven't been down here for a few years and I don't really know what's going on in the local community I don't know anybody who lives here, but this type of a place seems ripe for emerging artists who are low on money Who are high on life high on the arts to? You know, I don't know maybe even scoop up a cheap, you know property thing and and do art all the time You know, it's really hard to make it as an artist and I feel like if you have you know Really inexpensive place to be and you have a little ambition and a lot of creativity I feel like you know, you could live your best life out here Of course, it does get disgustingly hot summertime and that looks like some interesting place there So we're gonna drive by but I don't know maybe maybe this is like the beginning phases of a resurgence of Bombay Beach I have no idea But everything else it's like a like I said a functioning goes down. It's like a place that like a RV park with a bunch of meth addicts Got hit by a tornado But there's also something over this levy up here Bunch of I don't know. There's like a little installation. I think oh, yeah, we're gonna check this out next. That looks interesting area 51 That you see this Be careful. Let's check the mail today. Let's see what's going on Oh Here we are. I am the plan of life the Gospel of John. It's a little Bible and Polaried picture and a postcard another Polaried It's Arizona It's outgoing Clear and I were just discussing the fact that this looks like kind of a mad max Kind of area with people putting all sorts of trash art In different places like this very interesting Door it's locked. You let me in So it is kind of cool right like again if you're like a struggling artist if you don't have money You can go out into the desert and take trash and turn it into art. I've seen it several places like the doll head trail in outside of what is it Atlanta, Georgia The Salvation Mountain slab city thing has a current sort of theme going on, you know, and there's you can't really see it But there's a dude way down there and he's putting like a little driftwood teepee together And he's shirtless and he has pants on not that has to do with anything. It is warm day out here It's like 70 degrees But you know art is the up to the interpretation of the viewer as seen By a banana duct tape to a wall that was like some ridiculous price Interesting fun facts about the Salton Sea. It's 343 square miles of area. The maximum depth depth is 43 feet So imagine a lake 34 miles by 10 miles wide The fish in this lake I'm probably walking over because they're always dead is a Mozambique tilapia Why a tilapia or any fish of that matter can survive in such a saline environment? I have no clue whatsoever And the fact that someone went all the way out there All the way out there into the lake. That's probably a good. I don't know 50 yards 40 yards something like that and put that stuff in there in this nasty stuff Beyond my comprehension. No, I don't know because I'm not editing this stuff yet. I'm just looking at it Oh my god. I just saw larvae of some sort. That's disgusting You can see you there's one that flew to the surface. Oh my god It's like an amphibious creature right there. Look. Oh Isn't that gross? So all this slime is some kind of algae A lot of times it smells really bad, and I don't know if that's a smell of the decaying Sea creatures I don't know if that's a smell of dead rotting fish Or what it's just it's insanely disgusting the history of this place to be very brief is that The Army Corps engineers were doing something the Colorado River Something happened and then all this water flowed down here and I think it was a month's long thing Google it if you're curious, but that's kind of how this whole thing formed It doesn't smell that bad today That bad it's still not grace. Would you go swimming in there? It's stagnant and like I'm from Texas and we have bad lakes, but like this is Interesting very interesting No idea what this is but This could be all that it ever was meant to be right here, but yeah, you're right I think honestly, I think this is cool turning trash into art all jokes aside But yeah, like check this thing out over here And if you're just bored or whatnot you could just make a dragon in the sand Just got to watch your step out here cuz you never know what you're stepping on or under Yeah, get your tetanus shots before you come out here But out of way interesting. I don't know it's just it's really bizarre out here but if you're you know looking for something different or you know I'm gonna free camp in one of these things bring a hammock All right guys as promised. I saw this from the levy behind Something called foundation. I don't know if it is open to the public the gate is open It looks like there's all sorts of origami butterflies all over the fence, which is super cool Definitely a Kodak moment Instagram picture waiting to happen but Yeah, very interesting. I don't know the story of this because nobody is here But yeah, pretty neat, huh? Well, I just came across the Bombay Beach Opera House Next to this very interesting. I don't know Artwork botanical garden. Oh, this is the Bombay Beach Botanical garden as you can see all the botany right before our very own eyes Right here are some of the Botanical garden A chopped up dehydrated onion Guys the gifts of Bombay Beach keep on giving also you guys got to watch out for the Sunday yard sale Oh, man. I don't know if that's a joke or not, but look where we are. We are at the Bombay Beach Drive-in. I Think these guys have been parked here for too long. What do you say Claire? Some of the viewers might recognize these cars. This is way before my time I know there's a Volkswagen bus over there and it looks like a Nissan pickup Some kind of a Nissan and I have no idea what the heck this thing is. Maybe a stew to bake or something Not even gonna guess about that one. Oh My gosh, oh That one sold you'll come, you know that one's got seats in the back you see that oh wow They're matching you see this little small one in that one. They look like little boat cars if you guys ever seen those and Looks like somebody was up to some action here someone's bras hanging from the roof That's right and look at ease this is like an old Wayne's World car is it a gremlin Yeah, that's cool actually or VHS And it looks like there's a stadium seats and some sort of a ferris Wheel bucket seat of some sort some kind of other kind of golf car or something. I have no idea. This place is wacky. I really You could I'm really into this panel van. Oh It's even converted with a bed in there. Maybe she can convert one of those next. Yeah Kind of oh my god, look at that old insulation gross Anyways, there's some funky things going on. There's a boat. Yeah. Anyways, I Don't know. This is really cool. This is a lot cooler than my previous experience here Stopped by I think two years ago, and then I stopped by four years ago And it looks like some people been up to some rather Creative things out here in Bombay Beach Bombay Beach The gift that keeps on giving let me show you guys something that I thought was a little bit funny when I rolled up the park here Slow Seniors at play now if I remember correctly this little corner used to be like the VFW Place or something. I don't remember exactly, but I just remember a place and it was like You know come by you know pizza Gathering at five o'clock on Thursdays or something like that Now it is replaced with this gigantic perfectly bent Airplane with some sort of thing on top. These look like Burning Man type exhibitions. This is definitely a permanent installation and It is locked up there, but it does look really fun And it looks like again I don't know for a fact because I don't live here, but it seems like there's a little resurgence of Quirky artsy people in this neighborhood probably because of proximity to everything else in Southern, California weird stuff over at Slab City and The prices are probably dirt cheap And also proximity to Southern California because it's just so crazy expensive over here, but um, yeah, this is really cool So stop by Bombay Beach. I had no idea all this fun stuff was happening over here Well guys, I guess I wasn't far off if this is not a joke It looks like they're trying to revive this small town which is both exciting and sad at the same time because the gentrification of the Forgotten wasteland is just So typical, you know what I mean? so anyways Who knows I don't know the future of this place There's an interesting stop. There's a lot more stuff happening Again people follow the artists when you know just like Detroit and The housing bubble crisis Currently The locals interact with one another and plan upcoming festivities at the black pro coffee bar over breakfast Next to the coffee bar is the art bar that houses a majority of the town's creative supplies. Oh interesting So there you have it guys. This is uh, maybe not such a Post-apocalyptic place, maybe maybe it actually is getting a Revival, who knows they do. Yeah. Oh interesting. There you go Bombay What an interesting day, I think that's gonna end it for this video because it's been such a long day We've just been kind of yapping so Anyways where we're going towards the salvation mountain slap city. I guess we'll put that in the next video Thanks so much for watching hit the subscribe button like comment. Don't be an a-hole. We'll see you the next time