Carrera205
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So cool. Imagine what it looked like back then. I imagine it was a ship running from pirates and ended up stuck out there somewhere. Buried with its loot. Only shows itself to some but never in a time when the treasure can be recovered. Lost to the sands forever.That area could certainly have been flooded and accessible from the Sea of Cortez. Imagine a heavy flow year on the Colorado river before there were any dams. Lake Cuahilla was quite large and was likely periodically connected to the Sea. I have spent a decent amount of time in Anza Borrego and the rumors persist of both of these possibilities.
Here's another article:
California's Lost Viking Treasure Ship
The absurd task to find an ancient vessel in the hot Colorado desert hasn't stopped believers.www.newsweek.com
That’s so cool. Yeah I read that the Salton sea is about 250 feet below sea level and that it is completely possible that the area could of been full of sea water. And after time the Colorado river delta filled up with silt from the river flowing and eventually blocked sea water from coming in anymore. Pretty cool stuff.I’ve done a lot of hiking and off-roading in the hills above Salton Sea (use to be part of Lake Cahuilla) and sometimes you come across an area that is covered in sea shells a few hundred feet above the lake level which would be close to what sea level is today. So it’s not unreasonable to think that at sometime in the last 600 years that area was open to the Gulf of California that would support the passage of a Spanish Galleon? Kinda like Bigfoot, you have to recover it or nobody will believe it. After 400+ years it likely got buried by sand and/or mud?
I often think about the Kit Carson tale of him traveling to/from the So Cal area across this desert to back east....during a timeframe the Salton Sea was not there.That area could certainly have been flooded and accessible from the Sea of Cortez. Imagine a heavy flow year on the Colorado river before there were any dams. Lake Cuahilla was quite large and was likely periodically connected to the Sea. I have spent a decent amount of time in Anza Borrego and the rumors persist of both of these possibilities.
Here's another article:
California's Lost Viking Treasure Ship
The absurd task to find an ancient vessel in the hot Colorado desert hasn't stopped believers.www.newsweek.com
Old nautical maps showed a sea there and much of California(incl baja) as a huge island. View attachment 1014256
What are the tubes?Lots of other cool stuff in that desert. Anyone been to the tubes in glamis?
What’s that? Never heard of it.Lots of other cool stuff in that desert. Anyone been to the tubes in glamis?
Forget the ships, I just wish there was still a sea separating California from the rest of us!!
This is a fascinating story and seemingly plausible. In the 1850s paddlewheel boats would travel from San Fransisco around Baja and up past fort Yuma delivering goods. Perhaps ocean water levels were higher in the 1600s (the other global warming) and a water route flowed to the Salton sea basin???