Nice flight Alex. My word! That's a vivid discolouration of the water. Is that due to minerals leaching from the soil, pollution, or an algae growing on the surface, do you know?

Lovely location and nice flying Alex.    Don't think I've ever seen a lake as red as that one.

DowntownRDB Posted at 5-30 01:50
Lovely location and nice flying Alex.    Don't think I've ever seen a lake as red as that one.

Iron oxides are the reason as far as I understood. I recently saw a picture of a red waterfall in the Arctic caused by the same
Not very healthy to enter this water thou I heard

Nice flight Alex

alex_markov Posted at 5-30 09:20
Iron oxides are the reason as far as I understood. I recently saw a picture of a red waterfall in the Arctic caused by the same
Not very healthy to enter this water thou I heard

Iron oxides does make sense.  Yeah, I don't think I'd like to get in that water.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 5-31 05:11
Iron oxides does make sense.  Yeah, I don't think I'd like to get in that water.

You are not alone
There was a TV part for this lake where the mare of a nearby village says he is afraid someone will be hurt and placed some signs, but the land was not in his jurisdiction and the guy responsible for clean environment said they have some vague plans to clean it

alex_markov Posted at 5-31 05:54
You are not alone
There was a TV part for this lake where the mare of a nearby village says he is afraid someone will be hurt and placed some signs, but the land was not in his jurisdiction and the guy responsible for clean environment said they have some vague plans to clean it

Wow, I'm thinking that is going to be a major undertaking to clean that pond.  Best of luck to them in that endeavor.

Yeah, I watched this one via FB already.
I hope it will get cleaned somehow.

Wonder why it’s called red lake