Typically Taylor’s videos nab little more than a hundred sets of eyeballs. So what if it was actually salt, not sand? Who cares that the blue color likely comes from a dye added to make the water evaporate faster?

Beautiful people paddling on and playing next to a serene strand of water that stretches for miles through a beach as white as the shores of Mykonos. Taylor took out his drone and captured a scene straight out of a high-end magazine shoot. “So we stopped, and sure enough there was that canal we were looking for,” he said, “and people were out there paddleboarding and kind of swimming on the edges.”

They knew they must be in the right place when they spotted, standing out amidst the endless expanse of white, a woman in a bikini.

He and a friend drove out to the canal in June 2020 after Taylor saw a picture of the canal online and realized it was right in his backyard. One of those people was Scott Taylor, a hobby photographer and videographer from Magna. “And then once that hit, it was just like, holy cow, you know? Everybody was headed out there.” “Up until they posted that picture, to my knowledge, it was never an issue,” McCoy said. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A vibrant blue canal of potash, used to extract valuable minerals from rich brines coursing through them extends into the Bonneville Salt Flats, garnering unwanted recreation attention in June of 2020.

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