In the pink: nine of Australia’s best pink lakes
What’s hot right now? Pink gin. Pink salt. Pink hair. Pink lakes. Yep, pink lakes, of which Australia has plenty.
From champagne to candy, with rose and bubblegum in between, is it any wonder we love them? The natural phenomenon occurs only with the right balance of salt, sun and some hardworking micro-organisms.
In this piece, I rounded up nine lovely pink lakes around Australia with the hottest hues, for your pink perusal. Some, like the pink lake that occasionally lives beneath Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge, are easy to find. Others, such as Western Australia’s Lake Hillier, are our most iconic, but also the hardest to reach.
Click here to read my story in Traveller about nine of Australia’s best pink lakes.
I cant imagine that pink lakes really exist, is this on the west Australia?
They’re absolutely real! It’s a combination of algae and bacteria that turns the lakes pink (the same algae that turns flamingos pink!) There are quite a few in Western Australia, but also in South Australia and several in Victoria – not to mention Senegal, a handful in the Middle East (Oman) and a few others scattered around the world. Thanks for reading 🙂