Salt circles

At Death Valleys low, salty base lies the Badwater basin. Like the pans we travelled through in Botswana, they are alive and fluctuating, with water that waxes and wanes, in an otherwise dry place. In Badwater, the high salinity of the earth below leaves behind salt crystal formations when rising spring waters dry up. Salt crystals crunch beneath bare feet and form lunar-like circles across the surface of the pan. Water in a dry place always leaves a shadow of itself when gone, more often than not it is a circle.