We Have Had Some Severe Floods

in the UK lately, 

but this is not one of them, this is a pink lake known as Lake Burlinskoye, a salty lake located in Russia’s Altai region close to the border with Kazakhstan, first things first, why is it pink? that is because of these little creatures, 

photograph wildlife.utah.gov  brine shrimp, (Artemia salina), grazillions of the little things colour the lake pink, and aquarists all over the world use them to feed their fish on, next why the train? it is actually collecting valuable salt as it passes, and it does this several times a day, according to travel photographer Vadim Makhorov, the Salt Shaker train is equipped with special harvesting tools that disturb the lake bed and then collect the sediment in the train carts, the train collects about 65,000 tons of salt every year,

“They literally scrub the lake bottom and bring the mixture of salt and silt into the train which gets into the water along the railway,” Makhorov said. “When you watch it for the first time, it looks so bizarre!” salt harvesting at Lake Burlinskoye dates back to the mid-18th century, with some Russian royals, like Catherine the Great, only allowing salt from this lake to be served at her table. The Soviets mechanized the process, laying tracks straight through the middle of the lake, where the salt concentration is the highest, amazing!