The Pink Lake Hillier of Australia
ADVERTISEMENT We learn from geography classes that water bodies are marked then blue a propos the map. But nature likes to mess taking into account than us and creates oddities just in the appearance of Lake Hillier in Western Australia. With its mere 600 meters in length, Lake Hillier is not one that will impress you by its size. Nor will it impress you by its diverse fishes that inhabit it. Lake Hillier delights your eye gone than its pink colour. Moreover, it lies just adjoining the Pacific Ocean, for that excuse if you watch it from above, the contrast together in the middle of the mellow pink of the lake and the blue of the ocean is striking. The excuse of its unique colour is yet a subject that is not adequately understood by scientists, although most suspect it has to do something considering the presence of the Dunaliella salina microalgae. The Dunaliella produces carotenoids, a pigment found in carrots as ably. But the presence of halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts could ...