In the Sacred Valley of Peru with the Urubamba Valley as a backdrop lie the salt pans of Maras. The highly salted water emerges from a spring and is directed into an intricate network of tiny channels filling the various pans. Once the pond within the pan is dry, the workers then harvest the salt that is left behind.
Alcatraz Island, aka "The Rock", is 1.5 miles offshore of San Francisco first developed with facilities for a lighthouse, and then became a military fortification, a military prison, and then a federal prison. It also survived an 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes that began in November of 1969 and was forcibly ended by the US government in June 1971.
A beautiful foggy afternoon at California's Golden Gate.
