...you pass over evaporation pans where sea water is evaporated and salts are collected. Google Earth has a photograph of these beds, and the colors are remarkable. They are as bright as crayons. To see them, start Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/

and enter Newark, CA in the search box.

The beds are located at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, not in San Francisco itself.

I would like to know if anyone has flown over these beds and seen colors like that.