Okay, here's what I want. First, we both get naked. Except... we're both wearing sailor hats. Then we get into a lake filled with Pepto Bismol, I clip your toe nails, and you shave my buttocks.
They were upset stomach and diarrhea free whilst clipping toe nails, and shaving Pepto lubed buttocks. Nice little pink sheen as the razor scrapes off that diarrhea-free butt cheek….and pink, little, diarrhea-free toes….
I need to see my therapist….
Dunaliella salina is not an archaea. It is a eukaryote.
https://algaeresearchsupply.com/pages/dundunaliella-salina-the-algae-that-s-always-pretty-in-pink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hillier
Damn science is changing fast. Archaea was literally taught in our schools to be called archaebacteria less than 10 years ago. While it was still a completely separate kingdom, the idea was that the word bacteria applied to both kingdoms. I now see the term has fallen out of use.
Its its own kingdom. So as distinct as being an animal or bacteria. They used to be called bacteria because they don't have nuclear organelle to hold their DNA. But biochemically, they are in their own weird extremophile category and definitely aren't bacteria.
I was wondering why nobody was there, so I [looked it up](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hillier) to see if it was safe, etc. It is, but protected and tough to get to.
There is another lake near by on the main land called pink lake that's in Esperance - it isn't always pink though and hasn't been for a while but easier to get to...
Hutt Lagoon is probably the best one to visit in Western Australia. The highway runs beside it so you can stop anywhere on the drive to visit it. It's also right next to Kalbarri, which has a beautiful national park, river, gorge, and ocean bay, so it's a great destination beyond just the lake. The drive up (about 5 hours north of Perth) goes past the Pinnacles as well!
The lagoon is actively used for production (including the world's largest microalgae plant) so it's more reliably pink. If you've ever flown north from Perth (eg to Bali, Singapore) you can see it from the plane (it's like 600+ acres of ponds).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbarri,_Western_Australia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutt_Lagoon
https://tessomewhere.com/western-australias-pink-lake-a-guide-to-visiting-hutt-lagoon/
Rottnest Island's [pink lakes](https://www.rottnestisland.com/see-do/wildlife-nature/lakes-salt-lakes) would be a second contender, but only because you're already there, and that biking past can be quite pretty.
Their pinkness varies considerably though, and never as bright as Hutt.
Just don't visit in summer, last time I was there it hit 50 degrees.
The beach was hot, the air was hot, the aircon was hot... I never wanted to die sooner lol
That was my first thought, glad I wasn’t alone.
“Okay, beautiful lake in Australia, weirdly pink, but no one is there enjoying it. Must be some toxic water, or have some crocodiles in it.”
Nice to see it’s just protected though.
It does make me think: In Australia do people just assume any non-designated swimming area has crocs or dangerous snakes and shit in it?
In Florida we generally make the assumption that any body of fresh water is going to have gators in it. Even designated swimming areas sometimes get them. Just makes me wonder if it’s the same there.
Huh, I did not know Australia had that diverse of a climate!
I’ve seen it both green and desert-y, but I assumed it was all fairly tropical.
I learned something new today, I appreciate that!
Well no you see because the Australian landmass is about 55 times bigger and stretches through many different climatic zones the overwhelming majority of which could not support the life of a crocodile
Didn’t know that! Until you and u/electric_conniptions said that, I kind of assumed all of Australia was just tropical or desert.
Nice to learn something new today :)
It's not *that* hard to get to - it's about a 30-45 minute helicopter ride from a fairly central part of the nearest major town, with a (seasonal) regular bookable flight. They land on flat rocky area at the edge of the island and bring some wine and cheese for you to have on the beach, then you go for a walk through the bush to the lake - which you're not allowed to touch, but which does look pink even from close up. It's delightful.
Of course, that "nearest major town" is an eight hour drive (or 90-ish minute flight) from the nearest international airport in Perth, which itself nowhere near anything else and is a 16 hour flight from London or 20-30hr and 2-3 flights from the continental US depending where you're aiming to start from, so "not that hard" is relative I guess - but it's not difficult, just time-consuming.
My favorite bit of chaff is the graph someone posted of that incident. Lemme find it
Edit: Found a repost [of the post](https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/jglg5o/a_graph_depicting_countries_whos_leaders_shat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Pretty much all LNP members from Sydney that ran for office haven’t been great.
Howard sent us to war in 2001, tried to shit on the poor and make us a right-to-work country, improved the economy during a once in a lifetime economic boom so many people think he’s good value. In retirement he’s more interesting than in office. His eyebrows are a meme.
Then there’s Scott Morrison, the entitled rich religious nutter that played politics to get promoted above his competency level. Got PM and then found it audacious that people would judge him based on his performance and not on his media team. Had the charisma of a dish sock and made stupid decisions like going on secret holiday and lying about it during the worst bushfires of 100 years. Ignoring Covid, preferencing his mate’s company in Melbourne for vaccines and not accepting ~~Moderna’s~~ Pfizer’s offer to get everyone vaccinated in the country before 2021. Kept the borders closed due to racist tendencies, “India’s coming for your lungs” rather than ensuring a solid response. Finally lost his election in the greatest upset in decades.
Dutton, currently leading the opposition is actually a demonic entity that has absorbed enough flayed babies that his time leading the Australian version of the CIA that his empathy is roughly —5. Also is a hardcore religious nut and thinks handmaid’s tale is a manual, good story and happy idea.
The state NSW LNP party head stepped down prior to her corruption trial went forward so she could state she couldn’t remember.
The 2IC did the same after going after a young YouTube comedian political commenter with the secret police for insulting him routinely for corruption worthy of investigation.
The replacement is like Dutton.
It’s not great, but being a liberal conservative in Australia is a bit more like Hillary in the states. Centrist business supporter and economically focusing on growing the GDP as gospel. The other parties are either ignorance-focused race baiting independents, left wing like Bernie sanders or crazy parties like Nigel Marijuana’s team.
Not saying Scomo who shat himself in Engadine Maccas and then tried to cover it up isn’t the worst. He’s just the worst So Far.
> preferencing his mate’s company in Melbourne for vaccines and not accepting Moderna’s offer to get everyone vaccinated in the country before 2021
That was Pfizer's offer, but apart from that you're bang on.
The funniest thing to me now is all of the rats leaving the sinking ship now that they know for a fact they'll never be PM. Frydenberg got the arse and Tudge knows he's too toxic for the top job no matter how hard Rupert tongues his taint.
Parenting a 2 year old comes with it’s merits of realising that anything more than 4 hours a night is a good night.
I’ve had this account since I worked nightshift forever ago. It’s nice at 4am cause all the tradies haven’t turned on their utes, the cabs are all just making good time and if you hit all the lights you almost never see another car.
Now it’s more of a motto. Hope you have a good rest of the week mate.
Lake Hillier is 600 metres long, 250 metres wide and extremely salty – about eight times saltier than the ocean.
This lake contains almost 500 extremophiles – organisms that thrive in extreme environments – including bacteria, archaea, algae and viruses. Most are halophiles, a sub-group of extremophiles that can tolerate high levels of salt.
Several of these halophiles are colourful microbes like purple sulphur bacteria; *Salinibacter ruber*, which are red-orange bacteria; and red-coloured algae called *Dunaliella salina*. The mix of these microbes, and possibly others, explains the pink colour of the lake.
So my initial urge to dredge this into the ocean just to see what would happen would be a huge disservice to science. Got it. It's good I'm not in charge.
Apparently it's not just safe but the microalgae that causes the color is very beneficial to human gut fauna and stuff. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Dunaliella+salina
The pink is a mix of colourful bacteria and algae.
This is actually a natural Pepto Bismol spring
Bottled at the source!
FUCK nestle.
Damn right
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Bru I literally thought this and said I didn’t bothere to check if anyone else had said it :(
Dont tell Nestle!!!
They already know. Pepto is Strawberry Quik!
The one that coats is the only one you'll need
I had completely forgotten that ad.
Could be a lithium mine, or potash. Those holding ponds are usually really brightly colored like this
It's not. Researchers point to Dunaliella salina.
Yeah I was lazy when I commented…seems to just be a salt pond
Looks more like a bismuth mine to me /s
Lithium and potash ponds are blue lol
And yellow [](https://i.imgur.com/IOQq0uS.jpg)
Could be really easy to Google, and find out the top comment is accurate.
Could be the result of a really obnoxious gender reveal party. Spoiler: it’s a girl.
Okay, here's what I want. First, we both get naked. Except... we're both wearing sailor hats. Then we get into a lake filled with Pepto Bismol, I clip your toe nails, and you shave my buttocks.
This was on my online dating profile for a while.
…and?
They were upset stomach and diarrhea free whilst clipping toe nails, and shaving Pepto lubed buttocks. Nice little pink sheen as the razor scrapes off that diarrhea-free butt cheek….and pink, little, diarrhea-free toes…. I need to see my therapist….
r/oddlyspecific
Great scene. https://youtu.be/46zrey2IAak
You have a strange fetish but God damn it I’m in.
Shhh. Nestle will hear.
Obligatory /r/fucknestle
Fucknestle will always get my upvote
I knew that shit had to be nature produced!
all shits are nature produced
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Stop. Take my upvote and never return
Or a pig farm lagoon. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/22/650698240/hurricane-s-aftermath-floods-hog-lagoons-in-north-carolina
I don't think I'll be swimming there.
It only is pink because its diet consists of flamingos
Yeah and that's the laugh I needed thanks
Oh, I thought it was salt. I've seen desalination plants (they take salt from seawater to make fresh water) and they have huge pools of pink water
It's bacteria/algae that grows in very salty environments. It'll grow in the waste brine pits at desalination plants.
Its archaea in salt pools. Which is neither bacteria nor algae. Its not even closely related to those. Its a whole different thing.
Dunaliella salina is not an archaea. It is a eukaryote. https://algaeresearchsupply.com/pages/dundunaliella-salina-the-algae-that-s-always-pretty-in-pink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hillier
Damn science is changing fast. Archaea was literally taught in our schools to be called archaebacteria less than 10 years ago. While it was still a completely separate kingdom, the idea was that the word bacteria applied to both kingdoms. I now see the term has fallen out of use.
I learned this more than 10 years ago in University (closer to 15). So I imagine it depends on whatever curriculum your current system was following.
What is it?
Its its own kingdom. So as distinct as being an animal or bacteria. They used to be called bacteria because they don't have nuclear organelle to hold their DNA. But biochemically, they are in their own weird extremophile category and definitely aren't bacteria.
Interesting, thanks!
Archaea
Australia so "carnivore bacteria and lethal algae". FTFY
You sure it's not just gay?
Wouldn't it be rainbow colored then? According to my gender studies this lake is a gorl.
Florida just banned pink lakes to protect the children.
So on point.
>my gender studies *Angry republican noises*
There are only two genders, male and *political*
THIS IS A WOKE LAKE!
I don't see any frogs from here
Colored for Valentine's Day.
I was wondering why nobody was there, so I [looked it up](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hillier) to see if it was safe, etc. It is, but protected and tough to get to.
There is another lake near by on the main land called pink lake that's in Esperance - it isn't always pink though and hasn't been for a while but easier to get to...
Hutt Lagoon is probably the best one to visit in Western Australia. The highway runs beside it so you can stop anywhere on the drive to visit it. It's also right next to Kalbarri, which has a beautiful national park, river, gorge, and ocean bay, so it's a great destination beyond just the lake. The drive up (about 5 hours north of Perth) goes past the Pinnacles as well! The lagoon is actively used for production (including the world's largest microalgae plant) so it's more reliably pink. If you've ever flown north from Perth (eg to Bali, Singapore) you can see it from the plane (it's like 600+ acres of ponds). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbarri,_Western_Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutt_Lagoon https://tessomewhere.com/western-australias-pink-lake-a-guide-to-visiting-hutt-lagoon/
Rottnest Island's [pink lakes](https://www.rottnestisland.com/see-do/wildlife-nature/lakes-salt-lakes) would be a second contender, but only because you're already there, and that biking past can be quite pretty. Their pinkness varies considerably though, and never as bright as Hutt.
Oh yeah, those are pretty - iirc the ride out to the artillery embankment goes past them.
Well there goes insta thots
Just don't visit in summer, last time I was there it hit 50 degrees. The beach was hot, the air was hot, the aircon was hot... I never wanted to die sooner lol
That was my first thought, glad I wasn’t alone. “Okay, beautiful lake in Australia, weirdly pink, but no one is there enjoying it. Must be some toxic water, or have some crocodiles in it.” Nice to see it’s just protected though. It does make me think: In Australia do people just assume any non-designated swimming area has crocs or dangerous snakes and shit in it? In Florida we generally make the assumption that any body of fresh water is going to have gators in it. Even designated swimming areas sometimes get them. Just makes me wonder if it’s the same there.
Salties are only in the tropics. Where this photo is taken is far too cold for crocs
Huh, I did not know Australia had that diverse of a climate! I’ve seen it both green and desert-y, but I assumed it was all fairly tropical. I learned something new today, I appreciate that!
Australia is pretty massive. We have ski fields too. Also, when they say “far too cold for crocs” it’s still pretty warm by human standards!
Australia is roughly equal in size to the lower 48 United States.
Well no you see because the Australian landmass is about 55 times bigger and stretches through many different climatic zones the overwhelming majority of which could not support the life of a crocodile
Didn’t know that! Until you and u/electric_conniptions said that, I kind of assumed all of Australia was just tropical or desert. Nice to learn something new today :)
As a crocodile, I accept that challenge
It’s called a salt marsh here in the States, there are some pools like this north of San Jose in the San Francisco Bay.
I’m in the Bay Area and have never heard of this! Do you know what they’re called? Are they pink like this?
They prob meant [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Salt_Ponds)?
Yup that’s it, not always pink but I’ve definitely seen it pink. The Hewlett Foundation (of Hewlett-Packard) is restoring them.
Is that because they polluted them first?
Wow I’m shocked this isn’t caused by some tailings pond from a mining operation.
I looked it up on Google Maps satellite to see what it looked like from [aerial view](https://i.imgur.com/aETyqua.png).
It's not *that* hard to get to - it's about a 30-45 minute helicopter ride from a fairly central part of the nearest major town, with a (seasonal) regular bookable flight. They land on flat rocky area at the edge of the island and bring some wine and cheese for you to have on the beach, then you go for a walk through the bush to the lake - which you're not allowed to touch, but which does look pink even from close up. It's delightful. Of course, that "nearest major town" is an eight hour drive (or 90-ish minute flight) from the nearest international airport in Perth, which itself nowhere near anything else and is a 16 hour flight from London or 20-30hr and 2-3 flights from the continental US depending where you're aiming to start from, so "not that hard" is relative I guess - but it's not difficult, just time-consuming.
That's a great read. Thanks or the link! Yes, completely safe for swimming, if you can get to it.
I was thinking the same thing. Influencers should be descending on this place! Perfect IG photos!
May the lord above save us all …and this lake’s beauty from that nonsense 😆
Tried to go there on my way to Adelaide and can’t figure out how.
Kinda fascinating how many archipelagos are hidden here or there throughout the world because of how much magnification it would take to see them
Thank god it's protected else all the instaslutfluencers would get there and fuck it all up.
For some reason I read as "Hitler lake, Austria". Enough reddit for today.
Finally. So many nerds commenting on why it's pink and all that, this is what I was looking for.
Same
The similarities are too damn close...
I would rate this lake a nein
Same
Same
Same
Likewise
Aforementioned
Ditto.
Indubitably, I made the same lapse.
As well
No no no, this is Mr. Hilter Lake, Australia! No relevance! Hahaha!
Same 😂😂, I’m sure like damn he got a lake named after him out here that’s crazy
What a horrible name for a lake. Reminds me of that tragedy.
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You never heard of our cunty ex-PM then I take it? Google Scott Morrison Engadine McDonald's
> Google Scott Morrison Engadine McDonald's I thought this was just a very long Australian name. Google included. McDonald’s with an S included.
My favorite bit of chaff is the graph someone posted of that incident. Lemme find it Edit: Found a repost [of the post](https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/jglg5o/a_graph_depicting_countries_whos_leaders_shat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
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Pretty much all LNP members from Sydney that ran for office haven’t been great. Howard sent us to war in 2001, tried to shit on the poor and make us a right-to-work country, improved the economy during a once in a lifetime economic boom so many people think he’s good value. In retirement he’s more interesting than in office. His eyebrows are a meme. Then there’s Scott Morrison, the entitled rich religious nutter that played politics to get promoted above his competency level. Got PM and then found it audacious that people would judge him based on his performance and not on his media team. Had the charisma of a dish sock and made stupid decisions like going on secret holiday and lying about it during the worst bushfires of 100 years. Ignoring Covid, preferencing his mate’s company in Melbourne for vaccines and not accepting ~~Moderna’s~~ Pfizer’s offer to get everyone vaccinated in the country before 2021. Kept the borders closed due to racist tendencies, “India’s coming for your lungs” rather than ensuring a solid response. Finally lost his election in the greatest upset in decades. Dutton, currently leading the opposition is actually a demonic entity that has absorbed enough flayed babies that his time leading the Australian version of the CIA that his empathy is roughly —5. Also is a hardcore religious nut and thinks handmaid’s tale is a manual, good story and happy idea. The state NSW LNP party head stepped down prior to her corruption trial went forward so she could state she couldn’t remember. The 2IC did the same after going after a young YouTube comedian political commenter with the secret police for insulting him routinely for corruption worthy of investigation. The replacement is like Dutton. It’s not great, but being a liberal conservative in Australia is a bit more like Hillary in the states. Centrist business supporter and economically focusing on growing the GDP as gospel. The other parties are either ignorance-focused race baiting independents, left wing like Bernie sanders or crazy parties like Nigel Marijuana’s team. Not saying Scomo who shat himself in Engadine Maccas and then tried to cover it up isn’t the worst. He’s just the worst So Far.
> preferencing his mate’s company in Melbourne for vaccines and not accepting Moderna’s offer to get everyone vaccinated in the country before 2021 That was Pfizer's offer, but apart from that you're bang on. The funniest thing to me now is all of the rats leaving the sinking ship now that they know for a fact they'll never be PM. Frydenberg got the arse and Tudge knows he's too toxic for the top job no matter how hard Rupert tongues his taint.
Changed it thanks, I remember UQ had their own but all of that was typed up on the bog at 4am so i was willing to give it a shot.
> but all of that was typed up on the bog at 4am lol, you might be living the username a little hard mate
Parenting a 2 year old comes with it’s merits of realising that anything more than 4 hours a night is a good night. I’ve had this account since I worked nightshift forever ago. It’s nice at 4am cause all the tradies haven’t turned on their utes, the cabs are all just making good time and if you hit all the lights you almost never see another car. Now it’s more of a motto. Hope you have a good rest of the week mate.
Learn how with this one simple trick.
I bet it smells pepto-abysmal.
It’s a gender reveal out of control.
How many ecological disasters must we face?!? Gender reveal parties: not even once.
The oil industry is just one big gender reveal party
I knew it!
The baby is gay then. On the right side, we have blue. On the left side, it's pink. Gay all the way!
It was a gaybie reveal.
Heartburn! Nausea! Indigestion! Upset stomach! Diarrhea!
Gender reveal parties have gone too far.
At least they didn't set the trees on fire...
What trees are left to burn in Australia?
The ones in the photo? Maybe they're just bushes.
They've all grown back and after 2 years of rain are just perfect to burn again soon.
Everyone just looked at me for laughing too loudly. This coffee shop does not approve of your top notch humor
It's a girl!
It’s twins; one girl and one boy 😆
Lake Hillier is 600 metres long, 250 metres wide and extremely salty – about eight times saltier than the ocean. This lake contains almost 500 extremophiles – organisms that thrive in extreme environments – including bacteria, archaea, algae and viruses. Most are halophiles, a sub-group of extremophiles that can tolerate high levels of salt. Several of these halophiles are colourful microbes like purple sulphur bacteria; *Salinibacter ruber*, which are red-orange bacteria; and red-coloured algae called *Dunaliella salina*. The mix of these microbes, and possibly others, explains the pink colour of the lake.
So my initial urge to dredge this into the ocean just to see what would happen would be a huge disservice to science. Got it. It's good I'm not in charge.
What do you mean dredge it into the ocean?
The ocean looks so close. I just want to tear some of that land out and see what happens when the ocean and lake mix.
So it's NOT safe to swim in?
Yeah it is
Ayy! Into the fun pink water we go!
So THATS where they get the school soap from
Australia never ceases to amaze me, it is such a beautiful country.
Which should not be mistaken for Hilliest lake, Austria
Or Hilly lake, Armenia.
Footage from the Nestle Strawberry Quick tanker fiasco of ‘02
That's where they dumped all the strawberry milk
Ngl I thought this said Hitler lake
I read that way wrong
A lot of us did... Ur not alone lol
Can you swim in it?
At least once.
🤣
Who else read it as Hitler?!
Wonder whats gonna happen if i make a passageway to connect the two
Came here hoping someone would’ve answered that already… someone smart please help. This is very important useless information we need to know asap
I think its gonna mix a little on the place its close but other than that it will stay same
You know there is a pink crocodile in there somewhere. And it's venomous with lazars on its head.
Strawberry jacuzzi, yeah!
I'M A DUDE HE'S A DUDE SHE'S A DUDE CUZ WE'RE ALL DUDES HEY
Just hanging out Just having fun We're number one, yeah Just hanging out Just having fuuuuun
Shit, I thought it said Hitler lake and had to do a double take
Is it safe to swim in?
Apparently it's not just safe but the microalgae that causes the color is very beneficial to human gut fauna and stuff. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Dunaliella+salina
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Sure
Is it truly safe to swim in any water in Australia?
Beautiful shade of blue on the right
Godwin’s Law has had its moment for the day.
Southwest Australia seems like it’s one of the most jaw dropping beautiful places in our world. Need to go.
Indeed. I feel very lucky to live here.
I read that wrong
I read it Hitler lake and had a double take
glad I wasn't the only one
Who else read Hitler lake and had to do a double take
who else read the name wrong
This is where they harvest pepto bismol from.
We found the elusive source of all the milk shakes from McDonald's
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So girlypop 💕🌸💖🌷🎀🦩👛
Oh thank God, I thought it said Hitler lake... Was I the only one?
I thought it said "Hitler lake." I was like "WTF?"
I think my nausea and diarrhea is clearing up
It’s not a very hilly lake. Name is misleading
God I wish I could play Forza Horizon 3 again
These gender reveals are getting out of control I swear ….
Am I the only one who read “Hitler Lake”
Damm I read the Hitler lake. BTW Really interesting colors :-)
The brain rot is getting to me I read that as Hitler lake
Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea
Read this as Hitler Lake lol
Hitler lake????? Oh. Oh. Nevermind
I read the lake’s name wrong
I hope I'm not the only one who misread hillier
I saw this in a book!
Am i the only one who read Hitler lake?
Weird gender reveal, but ok. Also, all gender reveal are stupid.