Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Back when California’s Salton Sea was really a sea, or at least a big lake after the last flooding in 1905, Captain Charles E. Davis made it his home. Davis had already been a fishing boat captain, a gold prospector, and a world explorer before he settled down to become one of California’s more memorable eccentrics.
There, Davis developed and inhabited Mullet Island, on top of an inactive volcanic butte and among what Salton Sea historian Pat Laflin calls “an inferno of hissing geysers and boiling mud pots.” It was befitting of Davis’ character to live atop a dormant volcano, and that is said to have been one of…
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