Water walker?
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We're witnessing a miraculous sight, but not the walk-on-water kind. It may look like this silhouetted subject is striding on the surface of a mountain lake, but that's actually just an inch or two of water. When rains fall here on the Bonneville Salt Flats, they form a mirror that stretches up to 40 square miles over the tightly packed saline surface. Some 17,000 years ago, this magical illusion wouldn't have been possible: Back then, the basin lay under hundreds of feet of water as Lake Bonneville covered what's now northwest Utah.
Bridging the Big Easy
Small beacon, big city
Bridge to nowhere?
Busy bridges
Rainbow row
A 'bridge' to the sea
A bridge between boroughs
Lighting the lakeside