Thursday 28 March 2013

Lake Retba, Senegal



Lake Retba


It is Like someone poured a huge bottle of bismuth subsalicylate into the lake Retba - This is how deep pink these water are. Actually the color of the pigment produced by a special kind of algae called Dunaliella salina.

The salt content is very high, reaching 40% at some point, grow algae (and swimmer effortlessly floating on the surface of the 10-foot-deep lake). Piles of blinding white salt line of coast, locals every day to work a few hours of harvesting salt from bright pink water.

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