And Now For Something Completely Different,

how about a dip in the pink?

in pink Lake Hillier on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia that is, on the southern coast of Australia is a group of over 100 islands known as the Recherche Archipelago, on one of these, Middle Island, among the lush forests, is a shiny lake, it looks like a giant footprint on the green carpet, surrounded by white sand, it has 600 m in diameter and is relatively shallow, from the deep blue waters of the Indian Ocean is divided by only a narrow strip of scrub, sand dunes and white sand,


once salt was mined from it, but the mining was abandoned many years ago, Recherche Archipelago and Lake Hillier were first examined by the expedition of Captain Flinders in 1802, in 1950, researchers studied the lake, trying to find out what makes it extremely coloured, 


the pink colour of Lake Hillier has not been decisively proved, although it is speculated that the colour could arise from a dye created by the organisms Dunaliella salina and Halobacteria, another hypothesis is that the pink colour is due to red halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts, that the colour is not a trick of light can be proved by taking water from the lake in a container – the pink colour can be found to be permanent,


but back to the question would you take a swim in this bubble-gum pink coloured lake?