John Waters is used to dealing with odd characters in his often off-kilter films. It is very easy to imagine him directing one of his unusual movies at this fascinating location. The Salton Sea residents seem to have adapted to the fact that the areas recreational greatness may be only faded memories. Monumental fish kills and hundreds of dying birds, are testament to the ecological disaster which has become the current way of life. Water's interviews reveal the necessary adaptation made by most of the people who continue to live there. Whether the Salton Sea can ever be returned to it's past glory, is conjectural at best, but hope springs eternal in the small population of quirky characters living along the Salton Sea. - MERK
