Hutt Lagoon
This post is part of our Western Australia road trip. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for another part of the trip, here are some shortcuts:
- Lake Ballard
- Exmouth and Coral Bay
- Shark Bay and Monkey Mia
- Kalbarri
- Hutt Lagoon Scenic Flight <– You are here
- Jurien Bay
If you recall from our scenic flight at Shark Bay, we are now obsessed with aerial photography. As soon as we landed, I was on the phone to Northwest Aviation to charter a Cessna 172 for another doors-off adventure a few days later at Hutt Lagoon. Surely it couldn’t be as pink as the internet would have you believe. Spoiler alert: It was.
Hutt Lagoon is a pink lake, a salt lake with a red or pink hue due to the presence of the carotenoid-producing algae Dunaliella salina, a source of β-carotene, a food-colouring agent and source of vitamin A. The lagoon contains the world’s largest microalgae production plant, a 250-hectare (620-acre) series of artificial ponds used to farm Dunaliella salina. ~ Wikipedia
The flight up the coastline was an added bonus and we even saw whales!
After the scenic flight, we headed south to Jurien Bay. Continue reading…
