{"id":9590,"date":"2017-03-09T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/westgate-park-why-an-australian-lake-has-turned-pink\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:55:13","slug":"westgate-park-why-an-australian-lake-has-turned-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/westgate-park-why-an-australian-lake-has-turned-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Westgate Park: Why an Australian lake has turned pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A salt lake in Melbourne which has temporarily turned pink\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16BF6\/production\/_95047139_medreswestgateparkdroneshot2015-07-20at3.37.24pm.png\"\/>Image copyright                  Victoria Parks<figcaption>Image caption                                      Locals have been tickled pink but the lake is expected become blue again with cooler weather                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A salt lake in Melbourne has turned pink due to a combination of sunlight, warm temperatures and low rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officers said algae growing in the salt crust at the bottom of Westgate Park&#039;s lake produce a red pigment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Enjoy the views, but we recommend you don&#039;t come into contact with the water,&quot; Parks Victoria said.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon also occurs in Spain&#039;s Salina de Torrevieja, Canada&#039;s Dusty Rose Lake and Senegal&#039;s Lake Retba.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Parks Victoria<figcaption>Image caption                                      It may look like a strawberry milkshake but it is more than 10 times saltier than seawater                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Australia, the natural occurring sight can be seen in Victoria&#039;s Murray-Sunset National Park and Western Australia&#039;s Lake Hillier.<\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canadian town sorry for pink tap water<\/li>\n<li>Rabbit hold leads to &#039;Knights Templar&#039; cave<\/li>\n<li>Dramatic wave photo wows thousands online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Mark Norman, Parks Victoria chief conservation scientist, said the colouration was caused by a harmless, single-cell alga known as Dunalliela.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s completely natural,&quot; he said. &quot;We often get comments that it looks like an industrial accident of pink paint.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Parks Victoria<figcaption>Image caption                                      The natural phenomenon also occurs in Victoria&#039;s Murray-Sunset National Park                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr Norman said that even though the water is not dangerous, he would not recommend taking a swim.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s so salty and muddy on the bottom that you would come out looking like a frosted rum ball, especially when you dried,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Parks Victoria said the lake is expected to return to blue when the weather cooled and the rainfall increased.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-australia-39202350 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Victoria ParksImage caption Locals have been tickled pink but the lake is expected become blue again with cooler weather A salt lake in Melbourne has turned pink due<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}