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Believe Your Eyes, Le Lac Rose Natural Strawberry Lake of Africa
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Believe Your Eyes, Lake Retba Natural Strawberry Lake of Africa
In Africa
There is a natural lake the color of strawberries, Lake Retba or Le Lac Rose lies in Senegal Africa just one hour from its capital city Dakar.
Believe Your Eyes, Le Lac Rose Natural Strawberry Lake of Africa
Explore and Understand Africa Through Her Food and Culture
10-14-2017
Le Lac Rose is sprinkled with salt miners, using their hands and baskets to collect salt. To protect their skin from Senegal Le Lac Rose salty water, miners rub their skin with a very thick lotion, Shea butter.
Lake Retba is named for
its pink waters caused by an edible, salt-loving micro-algae dunaliella salina.
Dunaliella salina is a microalgae occurring naturally in a number of locations
worldwide. Dunaliella salina is an ideal organism to study the effects of
saline adaptation in algae.
Le
Lac Rose is a natural curiosity thanks to the exceptional color of its waters that
daily turn from colors from African violet to ruby red. Covering an area of approximately
one sq mile, the lake breaks down into four adjacent sections labeled Khaar
Yaala, Khosss, Virage and Darajee. The color of Le Lac Rose is particularly
visible during the dry season from November to June. The one sq mile strawberry
lake has been a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage status since 2005. Several
countries around the world have pink lakes, including Senegal, Canada, Spain,
Australia and Azerbaijan.
It is estimated 1,000 people work
around Le Lac Rose collecting 24,000 tons of the salt each year. Over half
of the salt is exported throughout Africa. With a maximum depth of less than ¼ mile, it contains a significant amount of salt that is labored by salt miners and exported
throughout the world for cooking, leather goods, and de-icing roads.
Did you know?
The coloring of Le Lac Rosewaters changes throughout the day from African violet to ruby red.
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A brief look at Senegal
Named for the Senegal River that forms the northern border of the country; many theories exist for the origin of the river name; perhaps the most widely cited derives the name from Azenegue, the Portuguese appellation for the Berber Zenaga people who lived north of the river. Senegal independence came on April 4, 1960, from France however, complete independence achieved upon dissolution of federation with Mali on August 20, 1960. Senegal’s economy is driven by mining, construction, tourism, fisheries, and agriculture, which are the primary sources of employment in rural areas. Senegal’s flag has three equal vertical bands of green on the hoist side, yellow, and red with a small green five-pointed star centered in the yellow band; green represents Islam, progress, and hope; yellow signifies natural wealth and progress; red symbolizes sacrifice and determination; the star denotes unity and hope.
Eastern
coasts of Caribbean, United States, and South America, are in danger of being blasted
by hurricanes wind and rain during hurricane season from June through November. But,
why?
The scientific reason why is because of Africa’s
Sahara desert dust storms and the transition of thunderstorms off the west coast
of Africa. The waters in the North Atlantic Ocean are typically at their
warmest while the Sahara is at its hottest from July through October, so the
chances of a hurricane are highest during these months. Hurricanes
are gigantic weather systems using convection, the movement of hot and cold
air, to create dangerous storms. They are rotating heat engines powered by the
warmth of tropical waters having three main parts, the eye, the eyewall, and
rainbands.
Hurricanes cannot form just anywhere in the world due to the need
for hot and humid air. They normally form close to the equator and move west or
northwest. Hurricane Alley is a stretch of warm water through the Atlantic
Ocea…
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