I want to float in the Great Salt Lake with my kids. I think it's an experience everyone should have. We went just look at the lake at Saltair and walk on the beach for a bit today. I told my son how there were a lot of bugs there. When we got there he said "a lot" was a "total UNDER-exaggeration". Unfortunately, it's true. There are billions of bugs at the Great Salt Lake. Still, I want to float in it with my kids so I'm going to work on finding the best way to do it with the least bug trauma.
While we were there there were lots of people stopping and doing the same thing we were. Some were stopping to swim too. Most people stayed for only a couple minutes like us. I met a family from Michigan that had just got out of the lake. They were on a road trip and the Great Salt Lake was one of their stops. In my best excited voice I asked their kids if they had fun. Unfortunately, everyone seemed to be to bothered by the bugs. I was so disappointed for them. I said I was glad they got to go in and at least float. Sadly they didn't even get to float. They said that they went in the lake about 100 meters and finally turned around because it was still so shallow. The shallowness of the lake is another thing it is famous for, but maybe they didn't know that and obviously didn't research the best place to float in the lake.
I've been thinking of this family ever since. I'm disappointed that their stop in Salt Lake was only going to be a memory of bugs. I wish the world knew they should contact me before coming to Utah, because I love it and I would give out great ideas!
A long time ago Saltair at the Great Salt Lake was so neat. It was apparently called the Conney Island of the West. In the early 1900's there was even a roller coaster there! When I was little I remember going there and getting ice cream. There were bumper cars and other fun things. It was a neat place. Now after two fires and lots of flooding the building left there is used for concerts and is totally run down. The beach is dirty and not very nice now. I feel like organizing a service project there, or starting a business to take tourists to good spots to float. It makes me so sad to think of all of the tourists coming to experience floating that leave disappointed like this family I met from Michigan.
I'm not sure how much I can (or I'm willing to) do, but I'll start with finding a great place to swim and posting that information here.
While we were there there were lots of people stopping and doing the same thing we were. Some were stopping to swim too. Most people stayed for only a couple minutes like us. I met a family from Michigan that had just got out of the lake. They were on a road trip and the Great Salt Lake was one of their stops. In my best excited voice I asked their kids if they had fun. Unfortunately, everyone seemed to be to bothered by the bugs. I was so disappointed for them. I said I was glad they got to go in and at least float. Sadly they didn't even get to float. They said that they went in the lake about 100 meters and finally turned around because it was still so shallow. The shallowness of the lake is another thing it is famous for, but maybe they didn't know that and obviously didn't research the best place to float in the lake.
I've been thinking of this family ever since. I'm disappointed that their stop in Salt Lake was only going to be a memory of bugs. I wish the world knew they should contact me before coming to Utah, because I love it and I would give out great ideas!
A long time ago Saltair at the Great Salt Lake was so neat. It was apparently called the Conney Island of the West. In the early 1900's there was even a roller coaster there! When I was little I remember going there and getting ice cream. There were bumper cars and other fun things. It was a neat place. Now after two fires and lots of flooding the building left there is used for concerts and is totally run down. The beach is dirty and not very nice now. I feel like organizing a service project there, or starting a business to take tourists to good spots to float. It makes me so sad to think of all of the tourists coming to experience floating that leave disappointed like this family I met from Michigan.
I'm not sure how much I can (or I'm willing to) do, but I'll start with finding a great place to swim and posting that information here.
