Lake Retba, which runs through Senegal, West Africa, gets its color from an unusually high salt content—in some up to 40-percent! Microbiologist Michael Danson says that the water gets its candy-colored hue from the salt-loving organism Dunaliella salina (an algae). “They produce a red pigment that absorbs and uses the energy of sunlight to create more energy, turning the water pink,” he told the Daily Mail.
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I like the title, “Sailing in a strawberry milkshake”. I’ll never look at a strawberry milkshake again without remembering this photo essay.
This is awesome! As a lover of the color pink, I need to put this on my list to visit!
That’s cool, didn’t know that!
That was totally awesome! It may sound wrong but the pink water looks cute! Haha!
How very interesting!
Extraordinary
What an incredible place.