Aerial view of pink lake. Source: Reproduction / mirror.co.uk

It is normal for pictures of beautiful and heavenly places to have a sea or lake of clear, blue or green water - always with white sand to complete. Now imagine if these waters were the same as the strawberry milkshake you take. Weird? This is what hundreds of Senegalese face every day lately.

Lake Retba is in West Africa, Senegal, and its waters are pink! In it there is almost as much salt as the Dead Sea salt, and because of this, only one type of algae can grow in these waters. To survive, it expels a pink pigment, which absorbs and uses sunlight to have its "food".

As there is only salt extraction in place, this organism finds a large space to reproduce. That way the whole lake turned pink. It's just awesome, isn't it?

Source: The New Stribe

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