Marty’s photo of the day #4893: After 3 days of traveling, including 5 airplane flights and a 2-hour speedboat ride across open ocean, Deb and I are back home from the Raja Ampat region of Indonesian New Guinea. Having traveled all 7 continents and written 3 nature-oriented travel books, I can say with confidence that there is no place on Earth more stunning than the Raja Ampat. I’ll share with you the best of the photos and movies I took there in the coming weeks.

I shot this photo while snorkeling in a tiny lake filled with stingless jellyfish. In the ocean, stings from this species of jellyfish pack a wallop, but in the lake, where they are cut off from predators, they’ve lost their ability to sting. Swimming with them was so much fun! They’d bounce off our masks and each other and simply change directions. Lakes with stingless jellyfish like this are extremely rare.

The biggest jellyfish in this photo is named Bob.

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