Bombay Beach, California

A partially-flooded trailer community with a few hundred homes, on the east shore of the Salton Sea, Bombay Beach is one of the lowest communities below sea level in the U.S. Once a popular water skiing and fishing location in the 1950's and 1960's, Bombay Beach has suffered a decline, due to the rising lake levels, the increasing salinity of the Sea, and related pollution and bad publicity. It is a remarkable looking place, as evidenced by the increasing number of contemporary photographers who have photographed the slowly rotting trailers on the edge of the sea.