SA: Yachties on pink oil savour elusive natural wonder

AAP General News (Australia)
02-27-2009
SA: Yachties on pink oil savour elusive natural wonder

By Tim Dornin

ADELAIDE, Feb 27 AAP - They call it sailing on pink oil.

So salty is the Lake Eyre basin that even when the water reaches a metre deep it remains
thick and heavy, it still crystallizes around anything that breaks the surface.

And when the floods come, the shimmering pink hue spreads far into the distance, engulfing
thousands of square kilometres in South Australia's north and bringing life to the normally
parched, barren landscape.

As commodore of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club, surely one of Australia's most …