Port Gregory

Pink Lake

Town is probably too grand a word for Port Gregory. It is a hamlet at best with a caravan park, a beach that is protected by a reef, a general store and a pink lake, the caravan park was delightful and had all the facilities you would expect including grassy sites and a lovely undercover BBQ area with a pool table, darts, air hockey, bar football and even an arcade game. It even had petrol and diesel pumps, just in case.

The Pink lake is pink when the sun shines on it and it took a few visits to get good photos of it, the pink colour is caused by beta carotene producing bacteria and apparently id best at sunset, unfortunately, it was raining at sunset when we were there.

BASF extract the beta carotene to make food colouring and other things.

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