Friday 8 November 2013

LAKE RETBA, SENEGAL






Barbie would be in her own wonderland frolicking in the princess-pink waters of Lake Retba in Senegal. Evoking Candyland fantasies, the pigmentation in this strawberry smoothie-like lake is actually caused by dunaliella salina, a red or purple micro-algae that thrives in the lake’s hypersaline conditions. Depending on the intensity of the sunlight,this surreal lake changes from shades of mauve, to cotton-candy pink or a bloody red.


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