Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk island in Palau. This Micronesian island is home to five marine lakes that contain Mastigias papua, the golden jellyfish. It’s thought that these jellyfish have lost their ability to sting, but they do – it’s just rarely strongly enough to be felt by humans. See a video here
Photographs by David Kirkland, David Doubilet, Jody Macdonald and Chean Chong Lim
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Beautiful shots. Love it.
How fascinating! I think I would panic a little even though they don’t sting… just because they are jellyfish and a little freaky. Thank for sharing. Irene :)
Yeah us too for sure ;)
WOW!
I have a dreamed of going here after seeing it on national geographic. Must feel so weird having them all bounce off you. Very cool pictures.
Hopefully we all get to go at some stage :)
Its on my bucket list for sure.
Good..let us know if it comes to it :)
awesome!
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This visual image made a strong impact on my senses. Not just because of the colour and beauty of it, but because of the embedded connotations. To me, the explanation that the jelly fish here do not sting strongly enough to be felt by humans was what stood out and triggered a ringing sound in both ears. I wonder about a hypersensitive human. We are not mentioned. We are not considered. We are not human enough humans. So much of what we feel, sometimes most acutely, are not felt or sensed by the general populace. Go on then, swim with the jellyfish, you human humans! :)
great images, but I wouldn’t want to be swimming with jellyfish, even if the stings were barely noticeable…
I couldn’t go in there!!! :p but…amazing pictures!!!!
I still am not sure if I would be brave enough to get into that water – but I’m sure it’s an amazing experience. Lovely shot!
Wondrous — I love that there are places like this in the world.
This is beautiful.. A little scary to be in the middle of them like that, but breath taking.. :-)
At first glance, I thought I was looking at montages– they look almost like roses floating in the water! Beautiful and fascinating!
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Stunning photograph