Green coloured lake in meath

gingerGiant · 2010-06-29 13:23:53

Just seen this on Google Earth, it's a lake in Meath but is green in colour wonder what happened or why is it this colour. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.835689,-6.670933&spn=0.014258,0.038581&t=k&z=15 Anyone have any ideas it's a bit unusual.

29-06-2010 01:23PM

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gingerGiant

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Just seen this on Google Earth, it's a lake in Meath but is green in colour wonder what happened or why is it this colour.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.835689,-6.670933&spn=0.014258,0.038581&t=k&z=15
Anyone have any ideas it's a bit unusual.

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#2 02-07-2010 06:02PM

Conor_M1990

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Algae ?

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#3 03-07-2010 12:23PM

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Conor_M1990 wrote: »

Algae ?

That much???

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#4 04-08-2010 03:47PM

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The lake in question is called Lough Bracken near a village called Drumconrath in North Meath. Curious it's such a bright green, It's not that colour in the OSI map viewer.

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#5 09-08-2010 10:16AM

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Lily pads?

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