Although it's perceived as an optical illusion by the first time seers, the permanence of the colour can be seen when a bucket is filled with a water from the lake.
When you look at the lake from the peak, it looks like strawberry milk on a rectangular cake.
It's located on the Mliddle Island, one of the hundreds of island which creates Recherche archipelago and the lake revives the south coast of the island.
This salty and shallow lake is about 600 metres wide and seems like it belongs to Hansel and Gratel fairy tales no less than the sea shaked by storms.
What is the secret of Lake Hillier?
The lake was examined in 1950s by a group of scientists who were planning to see the color caused by a type of seaweed named Dunaliella which lives in salty water. This seaweed creates a red pigment in salty waters and revives the all the pink-colored lakes in Australia.
The first records about the lake date back to 1802. English sailor Matthew Flinders stepped on the island while he was going to Sydney. After Flinder's visit, many people went to the island for commercial reasons. Between 1820 and 1840, seal and whale hunters settled on the island. Besides, people used the lake as a salt field for 10 years and very few people visited the island after the 20th century.
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