2 Answers. , I went nude hiking in Darwin Falls and Golden Canyon in Death Valley. The highest recognized official temperature is 134 degrees fahrenheit in 1913, as the other answer said. However, in 2012 a meteorologist visiting Badwater Basin recorded a temperature of 135.5 degrees fahrenheit.
In the ocean, pink salmon feed on plankton, other smaller fish, squid, and the occasional aquatic insect. The tiny marine crustaceans pink salmon eat are what give their flesh its pink color. As with all members of the salmon family, when they return to freshwater to spawn, they stop eating.
Salmon flesh is red due to their diet. Salmon gain 99% or more of their body mass in the ocean and the food they eat in the ocean is high in carotenoids (the same pigment that gives carrots color). These pigments are stored in their flesh. As salmon approach their spawning grounds they begin to absorb their scales.