Rove Magainze Issue Three

We hiked up to Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake City which has a lookout over the city and the lake. We were all unsure what to expect given that it was Mormon and all but from first view atop our lookout we couldn’t complain: It looked impeccably clean. The ‘Salt Lake’ part of the city turned out to be a different story than the ‘City’ part. When we asked for directions to the city’s namesake, the lovely employees of Wendy’s could not direct us to their famous lake. We did indeed find it, and it was not what I had imagined.

It had an awful smell, and there were many dead birds littered on the sand. It looked like there had been some plague and all the birds had fallen out of the sky. The lake took ages to become deep, so we walked out on the bird infested sand until we were ankle depth. Regardless of the strange odours and deaths, the lake was still amazing to see.

There was also some very windy salt flats which were fun for photography!