Kayakers paddle in one of Earth’s driest spots after rains replenish lake

People pull kayaks into the water at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park (John Locher/AP)

Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rain storms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly.

Park ranger Nicole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, “is normally a very beautiful, bright white salt flat”.