Pink!

A hot and tiring day today cycling around the Salin d’Aigues Mortes. This supplies salt for the Baleine salt company.
We had great difficulty finding out how to go round the place under our own steam and not on the little tourist train. And also , the cycling paths are great but no one seemed  to be able to tell us how to get onto them or how they all joined up. Lost in translation no doubt. We found our way eventually. You pay to enter then you can do a twelve or thirty K ride. It was hot so we opted for twelve!
The water really is extremely pink!
Caused by an algae growing in the water. The flamingos feed in the water and they go pink too, not artificially pink like the places which feed them on stuff to colour them , but a pleasing degree of pinkness nevertheless.
As if that wasn’t tiring enough, having discovered the cycling trail we made the most of it and popped down the coast to Grau de Roi. It’s a lovely fishing harbour place with a beach ( not a patch on my favourite Cornish beach but, each to his own,)  a lighthouse, shops, restaurants, cold drinks. Lovely! After that a dip in the site pool and a relaxing evening. 
The main picture is of the fortified town with the Salin in the foreground.
First extra,  more pink water shots, second extra, flamingos.