Shark Bay Reds
The Shark Bay landscape is a brilliant red colour, dotted with shades of greens, yellows and pinks and interspersed with creamy landscape features called Birridas. This image shows the edge of a Birrida beside the brilliant red, typical of Shark Bay’s landscape.
Birridas were landlocked saline lakes between sand dunes when sea levels were higher than today. A drop in sea level dried the lakes and left the salty hollows we know as birridas today. They range from circular or oval depressions about 100 metres in diameter to elongated depressions several kilometres long.
Read about my visits to this stunning location on my blog: https://shorturl.at/iwIR3
Birrida description referenced from
https://www.sharkbay.org/nature/geology/geological-history/
The Shark Bay landscape is a brilliant red colour, dotted with shades of greens, yellows and pinks and interspersed with creamy landscape features called Birridas. This image shows the edge of a Birrida beside the brilliant red, typical of Shark Bay’s landscape.
Birridas were landlocked saline lakes between sand dunes when sea levels were higher than today. A drop in sea level dried the lakes and left the salty hollows we know as birridas today. They range from circular or oval depressions about 100 metres in diameter to elongated depressions several kilometres long.
Read about my visits to this stunning location on my blog: https://shorturl.at/iwIR3
Birrida description referenced from
https://www.sharkbay.org/nature/geology/geological-history/
The Shark Bay landscape is a brilliant red colour, dotted with shades of greens, yellows and pinks and interspersed with creamy landscape features called Birridas. This image shows the edge of a Birrida beside the brilliant red, typical of Shark Bay’s landscape.
Birridas were landlocked saline lakes between sand dunes when sea levels were higher than today. A drop in sea level dried the lakes and left the salty hollows we know as birridas today. They range from circular or oval depressions about 100 metres in diameter to elongated depressions several kilometres long.
Read about my visits to this stunning location on my blog: https://shorturl.at/iwIR3
Birrida description referenced from
https://www.sharkbay.org/nature/geology/geological-history/
