

Things go awry when Zoe suddenly finds herself in a bathroom groggy and confused with only the two youngest kids with her. The only worry she has is avoiding the unwelcome advances of teen brothers Tyler and Jack. The nail-biting DVD Premiere stars Hallee Hirsh (TVs Grey's Anatomy) as Zoe, a teenager hired for an overnight babysitting assignment from a seemingly perfect family. Watch what happens before all the terror unfolds. What starts out to be a quiet night for Zoe turns into a nightmare when she discovers that one of the teenagers she's watching has had a psychotic breakdown. Images appear in Brant’s book Across the Ravaged Land and can also be very easily googled.Margaret ( Linda Hamilton) and Bruce ( Ted McGinley) meet their babysitter Zoe ( Hallee Hirsh) in our exclusive scene from Bad Behavior, which is currently available on DVD. As the lake level drops, they become coated with evaporites and appear like statues!! Still extremely cool and makes for some nice art deco just over a slightly longer timescale. What he could have added to this statement to avoid confusion is that since there aren’t many carnivorous creatures in the lake, over time the carcasses remain extremely well preserved.

Brandt describes that “it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lakes surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows they crash into the lake’. Nick Brandt produced some very beautiful and very sensationalized photographs that had many a website convinced you could head on down to Lake Natron, put an animal in and immediately take a statue out. Not quite the water body of death it was first made out to be…

A number of plants and fish can survive in the salt marshes and wetlands around the edges of the lake. The pink colour (and the flamingos) comes from the red photosynthetic pigments in the numerous blue green algae in the lake (and flamingos diet). There are a number of animals that enjoy this as a habitat – unsurprisingly there are bacteria, algae, extremophile (extreme loving) fish alkaline tilapia, and North Africa’s unfortunately named Lesser Flamingo. Lake Natron photograph from paulconormckenzie Flickr As threatening as it may sound it still has some predators such as irrigation and logging of the surrounds, highways and soda ash plants that would extract sodium carbonate to produce washing powder. Combined with its hot temperatures (40 oC) and highly alkaline pH (9 – 10.5) you would not think it the most hospitable lake. Lake Natron (Figure 2) is a salt lake with particularly harsh composition derived from its very special neighbouring volcano, Oldoinyo Lengai, that donates lots of natrocarbonatities (carbonate dominated lavas which are enriched in sodium) to rainwater runoff. Stony Swallow, Lake Natron, 2012, taken by Nick Brandt Wondering what to do with your old birds and bats? The Natron Lake in northern Tanzania can turn your animals to stone with one quick dip! Figure 1.
