derawan Archives - EscapeArtistes https://www.escapeartistes.com/tag/derawan/ Postcards from the Edge Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:18:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 The Friday Photo: Jellyfish Lake https://www.escapeartistes.com/2015/01/23/friday-photo-jellyfish-lake/ https://www.escapeartistes.com/2015/01/23/friday-photo-jellyfish-lake/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:09:20 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=20070 Ever snorkelled with jellyfish? Deliberately, I mean? We did, in the jellyfish lake on Kakaban Island, in Indonesia’s Derawan islands, off Borneo. Kakaban is a...

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Kakaban island in Borneo's Derawan Archipelago, blurred in a wave.Ever snorkelled with jellyfish? Deliberately, I mean? We did, in the jellyfish lake on Kakaban Island, in Indonesia’s Derawan islands, off Borneo. Kakaban is a marine lake, with only the slightest connection to the sea, so it’s evolved its own ecosystem. These spotted jellies have truncated tentacles and have almost entirely lost their sting, while anemones have evolved to prey on them, and tiny gobies hunt them in packs: it’s fascinating, if disturbing, to watch.

Jellyfish reflected in the surface of the water in Kakaban Lake, in Indonesia's Derawan Archipelago.

The world’s most famous jellyfish lake is in Palau. Yet Indonesia is home to several jellyfish lakes: there’s one on Maratua, also in the Derawan archipelago, another in Sulawesi’s Togean islands, while this academic explored tens of marine lakes in Borneo and Papua. All jellyfish lakes are open only for snorkelling to preserve their ecosystem – no scuba, sorry!

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