We learn from geography classes that water bodies are marked with blue on the map.
But nature likes to mess with us and creates oddities just like Lake Hillier in Western Australia.
Lake Hillier delights your eye with its pink colour. Moreover, it lies just next to the Pacific Ocean, thus if you watch it from above, the contrast between the mellow pink of the lake and the blue of the ocean is striking.
The reason of its unique colour is still a topic that is not fully understood by scientists
The Hillier Lake was first discovered in 1802 by navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders who took samples from the lake and mentioned its existence in his journal.
The lake is located on Middle Island, off the coast of Western Australia. As noted above, the Hillier Lake is quite small, its length is 600 meters and its width is no more than 250 meters. It is surrounded by eucalyptus and paperback trees and the ocean on its northern part.
For a few years they used to extract salt from the lake but nowadays it is only used for tourism purposes. The water of the lake is otherwise clear and it causes no harm to the human skin but scientists say that a Dunaliella salina algae is completely harmless as well . In fact, swimming in the lake’s water is safe and fun but impossible to do for normal tourists as the lake can’t be visited.
Lake Hillier
We learn from geography classes that water bodies are marked with blue on the map.
But nature likes to mess with us and creates oddities just like Lake Hillier in Western Australia.
Lake Hillier delights your eye with its pink colour. Moreover, it lies just next to the Pacific Ocean, thus if you watch it from above, the contrast between the mellow pink of the lake and the blue of the ocean is striking.
The reason of its unique colour is still a topic that is not fully understood by scientists
The Hillier Lake was first discovered in 1802 by navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders who took samples from the lake and mentioned its existence in his journal.
The lake is located on Middle Island, off the coast of Western Australia. As noted above, the Hillier Lake is quite small, its length is 600 meters and its width is no more than 250 meters. It is surrounded by eucalyptus and paperback trees and the ocean on its northern part.
For a few years they used to extract salt from the lake but nowadays it is only used for tourism purposes. The water of the lake is otherwise clear and it causes no harm to the human skin but scientists say that a Dunaliella salina algae is completely harmless as well . In fact, swimming in the lake’s water is safe and fun but impossible to do for normal tourists as the lake can’t be visited.