We are on a short biking/hiking/birding getaway on the north shore of Lake Erie. This was taken from the pier in Port Dover. You can see the wind farm on the opposite shore.
Interesting how the sky,despite the clouds, looks so blue but the water looks very yellow/green. I wonder what goes on below the surface here, is it shallow and a sandy bottom shows through? Or is it churned up and the water actually has mud or sand colouring it?
@gardencat As I understand it, there are multiple factors. The lake is quite shallow for a long way out, with many sand bars, and the sand is dark brown. In addition, there are often algae blooms in this area, and when all that stuff dies it falls to the bottom and decomposes. It’s quite blue further out.
@ljmanning Thanks for all the info. When I was a kid we had a house on a river and, most the time, the water looked green/blue but occasionally when the wind blew from the east it churned up the water somehow and it all started to look sort of yellow/brown, then we usually got a storm soon after.
May 31st, 2024
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