Mirages

Having grown up in the desert country, I am no stranger to mirages.  I have seen many.  But those we saw on the drive from Winnemucca to Wyoming take the cake.

As we drove through the salt flat country of Utah, Don commented that if he didn't know better, he would think there is a glacier between two mountains.  We both knew it was ridiculous, and once we got further down the road we could see that indeed, the two mountains did connect and there was no glacier there at all.

But the bigger surprise to me was that mirages can have reflections.  At one point, again if we hadn't known better, we would have thought there was a big lake because of the reflection of the mountains in the water.  We watched in several places where that was happening, but nearly every time (once there was a puddle) no water was present . . . just white salt.  I managed to capture of picture of the reflection in the salt - see what you think.