Skip in Lake Hillier, Western Australia

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSkip is on assignment at Lake Hillier in Western Australia. This is Posting 3 of his series. Skip.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThanks, Hank.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentAnd look, the pink is even more vivid than the photos suggest. I've got to see this in person, even if it's through a very clean window.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you, Skip. Where exactly are you standing?

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentWell, technically I'm sitting. In seat thirty-one C. The plane is not landing, but the window is very clean.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentLake Hillier is a salt lake on Middle Island, off the south coast of Western Australia. And it is bright pink.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentLooking at it from the plane, and it's about the size of my thumbnail.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSkip, have you tried leaning closer to the window? Sometimes distance is just a perspective we haven't embraced yet.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI have, Vera. That's how I got the forehead mark.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIs the pink real?

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentCompletely real. And a thin strip of land separates the pink lake from the blue Southern Ocean. Pink, then a little beige, then blue.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentIt's a flag, Hank, and I'm the only one flying over it.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd that's a story that deserves a promotion.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Promotion Tracker on the wall says zero percent. It's the same zero as always.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNext up for Skip: Boring, Oregon, Kolmanskop in the Namib Desert, or Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Chat, you decide.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentAny of them, Hank. And the pilot says we're turning around for another pass, so I'll be right here, closer than ever to the desk.