TRAVEL TUESDAY 392 - PINK LAKE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

“Pink isn't just a colour, it's an attitude!” - Miley Cyrus

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Hutt Lagoon (a.k.a. “Pink Lake”) is a marine salt lake located near the Indian Ocean coast 2 kilometres north of the mouth of the Hutt River, in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The lake is about 14 km in length along its northwest-southeast axis, parallel with the coast, and around 2.3 km wide.

The lagoon, a marginal-marine salina or marine lake, is an elongate depression about 70 square kilometres in area, with most of it lying a few metres below sea level. It is separated from the Indian Ocean by a beach barrier ridge and barrier dune system. Similar to Lake MacLeod, 40 kilometres to the north of Carnarvon, Hutt Lagoon is fed by marine waters through the barrier ridge and by meteoric waters through springs.

Hutt Lagoon is a pink lake, a salt lake with a red or pink due to the presence of the carotenoid-producing algae Dunaliella salina, a source of β-carotene, a food-colouring agent and source of vitamin A. The lagoon contains the world's largest microalgae production plant, a 250-hectare series of artificial ponds used to farm Dunaliella salina.

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