Esperance, Friday 25/11/11

Glenoverland
Fri 25 Nov 2011 12:14
 
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We had a really short 230 km drive today and have arrived on the coast at Esperance. Twilight Beach is wonderful.  The sea is really turquoise..    The camp site has grass, yippee!  We are wearing our fly hats and feeling quite comfortable (but we have a lot further north to go!!!).  We are camped next to Pink Lake, another of those lakes that’s pink!  We found out today, it is due to an alga that is highly salt tolerant, and which makes beta carotene, the stuff in carrots, and they harvest the algae to get the carotene for food colouring.  There is also a bacterium in there that makes pink stuff but I forget what.
 
We met a lovely couple, Rebecca and Ryan, who are on a 20 month cycling trip from UK.  They went the way we didn’t, ie around the bottom end of the Caspian Sea, through Turkmenistan then on through the other Stans and China, etc.  We shall enjoy reading their blog.

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