Show does great salt lake smell the utah department of pub and industrial development has received a letter from a new york writer ruth ayers who asks a number of questions about utah one is as follows does great salt lake have hav e the same real tangy salty smell or exhilarating whiff as does the oceana ocean the answer is yes and no it all depends upon one s location when sniffing great salt lake railroad men ano cross the luc in cutoff say that a gentl south breeze from oft off the salt water aft en has ha s the odor of fresh bananas on the other hand a breeze which sweeps over great salt lake s mud dy salt flats smell very much like ocean swamps on the east coast except the oyster and dead fish flavor is missing from the utah smell blair richardson salt lake city business man and perhaps one of the best authorities on great salt lake says that while the lake does not carry vegetation like the ocean it does have a clean exhilarating and refreshing smell similar to the smell of the ocean off the new england gland coast mr richardson knows for he sails the lake from end to end each summer |