5 FEBRUARY 2015 JELLYFISH LAKE From WIKIPEDIA: Jellyfish Lake (Palauan: Ongeim'l Tketau, "Fifth Lake") is a marine lake located on Eil Malk island in Palau. Eil Malk is part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, mostly uninhabited islands in Palau's Southern Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu. There are about 70 other marine lakes located throughout the Rock Islands. Millions of golden jellyfish migrate horizontally across the lake daily. After docking and hearing a lecture, you learn there are five jellyfish lakes, but only one is open to the public. Each lake has its own species of jellyfish.
Then off you go hiking over a small mountain, wearing the obligatory life jacket (even if it's the wrong size - I was issued a LARGE and told "Don't fasten it, just put it on", - while hauling fins, mask (and for me, a rather heavy UW camera). You get down to the water and some floating docks.
You suit up and slide into the water, then easily swim out into the lake. No heavy kicking or thrashing, as fins can tear up a jellyfish. It looks like any lake in Wisconsin: dark, cool, sun shining through the surrounding trees, glistening off the water (except that these are palms and mangrove trees). At first you see water and lake bottom, nothing else. Then you notice one jellyfish lazily floating along. You spot a fingerling of some kind of baitfish. Now you see two jellyfish, then a couple more swim by (you can see them pumping away); then gradually more and more. All at once you realize you're in amongst hundreds of them. Anemones live in the lake, too (red stringy growth fastened to dead limbs of the mangrove trees); they eat the jellyfish. Birds fly in and fish for the fingerlings. After a very long time diving into the water, it's time to go. Back you swim - a very long way because the jellyfish follow the sun and they've all congregated at the farthest end of the lake from the dock (naturally). Then you haul yourself up out of the water and start climbing again. Two VERY SHORT videos to give you an idea of swimming through the jellyfish are HERE and HERE

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