In the tiny fishing village of Las Coloradas, located on the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, it's pink. This section of the peninsula's largest wetlands reserve—the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve—is renowned for its striking rosé hues and its large, white salt banks that rise out of the earth like icebergs. The science behind the hue stems from both the red plankton and the high quantity of brine shrimp in the water. Essentially, the water dyes from the organisms' chemicals, much l
