I visited the La Brea Pitch Lake today, largest nautral bitumen deposit in the world.
The peripheries of the pitch lake are quite green and marshy, home to various wild grass, lotus' (nenuphars 😉) and my favourite plant Mimosa pudica was abundant and flowering. The guide (because you need someone who knows the area and where it's safe to walk) told us that there’re caiman in deeper parts of the marsh. He also mentioned that he's seen Osprey drop fish on more solid areas and wait a bit before eating them, seeming as though they were cooking the fish on the hot black pitch!
