Located 6.8 miles from the coast of Cape Arid National Park, the area around Lake Hillier is a place of unique biodiversity surrounded by dense vegetation and wildlife, including paperbark, eucalyptus trees, honey possums, and wallabies.
Today, Lake Hillier is closed off to the public and inaccessible to tourists, which may help preserve its distinct biodiversity. Much like the Spotted Lake in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, the Australian Lake Hillier creates a visual not often seen in nature, and human activity and pollution could threaten that.
While created by an entirely different organism called the macarenia clavigera, a similar pink water effect can be found on the other side of the world in Colombia’s river of five colors, or Caño Cristales. Though an entirely different scientific phenomenon causes that river’s colors, it shows that preservation of our environment is vital if we want future generations to see some of the rare scenes created by Mother Nature.
