brackish water lake - chilika. It is also a ramsar site, an international recognition for the wetlands and it's rich biodiversity. A sandy ridge separates this ethereally beautiful lake from the tempestuous waters of the bay Bengal. The chilika Lake meets the sea through a natural mouth at the village of AraKhKuda and through an artificial mouth near brahampura, which has been newly opened.
The vast pear- shaped expanse of water has a green range of hills on the west and the blue sea on the east. It is an Covering an area of more than a thousand square kilometers on the coast of orissa lays India's largest impressive 70 km long, of which the northern portion widens out to a breadth of 32 km. The southern end of chilika tapers into irregularly carved points averaging a width of 8 km. During the dry months, the water of the lake remains distinctively salty. Interestingly, when the numerous rivers and rivulets disgorge their waters into the chilika with the arrival of the rains, its salinity gets diluted and it transforms into a brackish water lake
