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A baby-blue colored pond found, of course, only in Japan (22 Photos)

August 7, 2012 | In: Awesome, Mind Blowing, Nature, Travel, WTF

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: Turquoise water of the Blue Pond in Biei, Hokkaido, with trees growing straight in the middle of it makes this place look otherworldly. The pond is real and it’s gathering popularity among tourists.

Scientists don’t know exactly what gives the Blue Pond its incredible aquamarine color, but one of the possible explanations is that aluminum rich water from the river nearby creates a colloid – a solution of dispersed microscopic particles – that reflects sunlight in a peculiar way. Either way, it’s a spectacular natural phenomenon.

: Blue jelly sold near the Pond

: A blue soda (based on the pond’s image but NOT made directly from it)

: Postcards from the Blue Pond

Category: Awesome, Mind Blowing, Nature, Travel, WTF

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derp

whatever it is, it killed the trees?

derptardia

Its called water.

LoyalChiver

I think I just saw that 3-eyed Simpsons fish!
Gary

What the SMURF is that!>!?!?!?!
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Ang

All of the trees that are in the water are dead…..

Anal

because trees dont grow in fucking water dipshit

Wisti

Yellowstone has lots of baby-blue puddles, some as large as this lake…along with every other shade of colour you could imagine…
Mark

Marmora Mines, Ontario, Canada has water exactly that colour. It's from the high concentration of minerals in the surrounding earth. Super cool looking.
rick

Turquoise water of the Blue Pond in Biei, Hokkaido, with trees growing straight in the middle of it makes this place look otherworldly.

#4

Genius
fubob

plenty of places like this in the world. my favorite is HAVASU FALLS. ps- Bob is an idiot.
Trig

Several in Kent and Hampshire, England.
D-Ron

Wow, a pond full of Hypnotiq in Japan.
http://www.facebook.com/KalebSweet Kaleb Sweet

Chuck Norris Pissed.
Smitty

Um, one word . . . . RADIATION.

btw

You spelled 'Smitty is a fucking idiot' wrong

JustTrollin

There are dead trees in the water, but it doesn't look like any of them are "growing" there, so there probably is something in the water…
joe

I've seen something very similar in a polluted small creek that originates at an abandoned coal mine.
Average Joe

Sara Jean Underwood would make that pond even more beautiful. That is all.
https://www.facebook.com/brent.neubauer Brent Neubauer

Don't even need to travel as far as Costa Rica or Japan. It's called Banff, Alberta, Canada. Google Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, and Peyto lake to name a few. Went there for my honeymoon. Most beautiful place on Earth!
http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/449159/il-lago-dal-colore-incredibile/ Il lago dal colore incredibile

[...] In Giappone, a Hokkaido, c’è un lago fatato dal colore incredibile: nel turchese delle sue acque crescono, inoltre, degli alberelli. Questa meraviglia della natura attira turisti da tutto il paese mentre gli scienziati cercano ancora di spiegare la tonalità dell’acqua. Potrebbe essere la forte presenza di alluminio nell’acqua che crea un colloide in grado di riflettere, in un modo del tutto particolare, la luce solare. [...]
Damoose44

Theres a lake bluer than that in South Australia http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/3974558998_51…
connman

japans gay…even the water. lol
ElZarbo

I live in Banff Alberta, this kind of lake is everywhere around here. Look up Lake Louise or Lake Moraine to see more spectacular blue water. Japan doesn't have a monopoly on weird lol.

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