Life Aquatic Expeditions

09/26/2026

Jellyfish Lake is like floating in a boba tea of amazing, non-stinging Golden jellyfish. We have a couple of spots remaining for our late December 2026 trip! Spend the New Year in beautiful Palau, Micronesia with us!

09/18/2026

Happy World Manta Day from the LAE team!

Being in the middle of barrel rolling reef mantas just might be one of the coolest things ever. The rule of thumb is follow the fusiliers (fish) and the mantas just might show up to feed!

Images taken while out with the great folks from at German Channel in Koror, Palau

We have a couple of last minute spots for our end of December 2026 trip. www.lifeaquaticexpeditions.com

09/01/2026

Beautiful humpback whales in the deep blue and good friends during a couple of weeks in picturesque Aitutaki during our Humpback excursions.

Until next time, Meitaki atupaka to our friends, Captain Onu Hewett, and the rest of the excellent Bubbles Below team.

EOS R5, EF 8-15mm fisheye, NA-R5 housing.

08/26/2026

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/a-new-zealand-sailor-spent-years-living-alone-on-a-remote-cook-islands-atoll-across-three-separate-stays-a-year-after-his-final-stay-ended-suwarrow-was-declared-a-national-park/amp_articleshow/133539848.cms

A remote Pacific atoll that was once the solitary kingdom of a New Zealand sailor has secured a lasting future, transforming from a hermit's retreat into the first conservation sanctuary in the Cook Islands. Suwarrow, an isolated coral atoll about 1,300 kilometres north of Rarotonga, was officially....

08/16/2026

A great first week with our first group in Aitutaki. Everyone swam with whales 5 out of 5 days!

08/07/2026

The Life Aquatic Expeditions team is looking forward to an exciting couple of weeks swimming with Humpback whales in beautiful Aitutaki with new and returning friends!

07/14/2026

Happy World Orca day from the Life Aquatic Expedition team.

07/10/2026

Life Aquatic Expeditions Co-owner and photographer Shane Keena recently had his image of a breaching Humpback whale from Australia featured by both National Geographic and Canon USA on their social media accounts.

We have trip dates for 2027 opening up and hope you’ll join us!

06/17/2026

Chasing iconic. Images by Life Aquatic Expeditions co-owner Shane Keena.

Yesterday was pretty special out of Brunswick Heads, NSW, Australia

The swells have kept us off of the water in the afternoons and evenings, but we got out this morning and boy did Mother Nature put on a show.

This morning had everything, dramatic moody backdrops, and lots of active whales that put on some spectacular aerial displays, rocketing out of the water.

05/12/2026

Your moment of Zen

Jellyfish Lake is thriving once again!

If you have had Palau on your travel bucket list please reach out to us! We have been running expeditions to this beautiful island nation for 10 years and would love to have you join us.

Float amongst a Massive smack of Golden jellyfish (Mastigias papua etpisoni) in Palau’s famous Jellyfish Lake.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, these jellyfish have evolved, losing their stinging nematocysts and feed exclusively from photosynthesis.

Each day millions of these jellyfish will migrate horizontally across the lake until nightfall when they will only move up and down to avoid the edge of the lake where predators (anemones) await.

Jellyfish have two life stages, the Medusa and the polyp. The Medusa life form is the golden jellyfish people see when snorkeling.

These tiny 2mm polyps live around 10 meters deep along the side of the lake, eventually producing the new medusae.