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From champagne to candy, with rose and bubblegum in between, is it any wonder we love a pink lake? With the right balance of salt, sun and some hardworking micro-organisms, here are the lakes with the hottest hues.
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LAKE MACDONNELL, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
If you want to tackle driving the Nullarbor Plain, prepare to hear stories of the 1256 kilometre-long, achingly boring drive across southern Australia. But just an hour west of Ceduna, where the plain officially starts, a left turn and a 10-minute drive leads you to a rainbow of lakes, including the watermelon-pink Lake MacDonnell. For those whose colour preferences stretch further than simply pink, it s match by a blue lake and a green lake of similarly eye-popping tones. Happily for photographers, a perfectly straight road cuts between them, creating fabulous, made-for-social-media snaps of vivid pink on one side of the road, and turquoise or green on the other. The road ends at renowned surf spot Cactus Beach, at t