It's Pinky! Lake Hillier

To those who love pink colour, this might fascinates you. Lake Hillier is a pink-coloured lake located at Middle Island, Western Australia. This place really suits with the lovers who came to this place to stroll along the lake. It's equally looks like strawberry-milk reservoir. Until this date, there's no scientific research on how the water turns into pink.

Contrast colour between the ocean behind. Picture from Google images.

To be exact, Lake Hillier is located at Middle Island in Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. However the colour is not a trick or fraud in order to attract people to visit this place, but it is natural. Scientists are totally not sure why the lake is in pink. But one of the assumption is that Lake Hillier is 10 times saltier than the ocean. This attracts salt loving algae named Dunaliella Salina that later produce Caretenoids a pigment compounds that absorb sunlight and gives colour to this lake, which is the same thing like Beta-Carotene that gives colour to carrot. 

Dunaliella Salina. Picture from www.aquaticbiosystems.org

As the water is too salty, there is not fish or any other animals that can bear with its saltiness. So there's no local people who are fishing in this lake. However, this lake is safe for people to swim. There will be no harm to them. People who swim in this lake will found out that they will never drowning.They were actually floating in this pink lake. Maybe this is the right place for Barbie haha. How cool is that!

This fellow enjoying himself  'floating' in the water. Picture from sevenholidayspot.com

Ain't it wonderful? Picture from foundtheworld.com

This place is really amazing as a pink lake is very rare to me. How I wish I could have a vacation here. Hope someday I can visit Lake Hillier and see it with my own eyes on its unique lake colour. Till then.