This view from the summit of Peak 5297 on Crater Island shows where I camped during my second handcart hike on the whitish mud flat below. My campsite was at bottom center, above (beyond) a small dark peninsula, shaped like a flying saucer and just barely sticking out into the light-colored mud flat. That hike took place two years after I took this picture.

The mud flat extends from Crater Island eastward to the hazy Newfoundland Mountains, nineteen miles away. A very thin layer of salt on the surface gives it the light coloring.