Today was a promontory point in my local travels!

Today I visited Promontory Point or the Golden Spike Historical Site.  This is the site where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad lines came to a point.  They trains met up on May 10, 1869.  This train line completely connected the East Coast of the US and the West Coast. It made it possible to travel from one side of the country to the other by train.  On May 10^th they placed the last spike, which was made of gold.  The train tracks no longer exist anymore because during WWII, the country needed all the steel it could find. So, the tracks were torn up and the steel sent to the war effort. 

I ended the day by going to Antelope Island (the largest island in The Great Salt Lake).  This island is 28,022 acres.  It is a remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville that covered most of Utah, as well as Nevada and Idaho.  The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.  It is much saltier than the Ocean. Because it is so salty, you can easily float in it and no fish can survive in it. The only thing that lives in it is brine shrimp.

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