Kayaking at Mono Lake
Mono Lake is one of the oldest lakes in North America. it’s estimated to be At least 760,000 years old. Interesting is that the lake has no outlets so the saline content is TWICE that of the ocean. This gives you more buoyancy if you swim...but be prepared to be salty dry skinned afterwareds. Also no fishing here due to alkaline water. But it’s an awesome lake to kayak. There are tufa tower formations...I ll let you google the science behind their formations....remember I was a business major so the science is beyond me. But tufa is found in alkaline lakes worldwide What I really found fascinating was where the name Mono Lake came from. The native Americans who lived here were known as kutzadika. They collected alkaline fly pupae (fly actually lays eggs underwater ) as one of main food sources. It was dried and used for food source and traded. When dry it looked like brown rice and tasted like bacon bits. Yeah...sure. Anyways back to the name the kutzadika were called Monache