Lake turns completely pink thanks to mysterious algae
The colour in Melbourne’s Westgate Park lake is the result of the large amount of salt it contains.Getty Images - GettyThe man-made salt lake was built to replace the original saltmarsh that was there and so already contains large amounts of the mineral in the water.
The lake - near the city’s Westgate Bridge - started to turn pink last week and it is expected to stay like that until later in southern hemisphere autumn. Though the algae is not harmful to local wildlife, people have been warned not to come into contact with the water. The lake is on the largest island in Western Australia’s Recherche Archipelagohas and was discovered in 1802.
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