Now, that’s what I call ‘bouncy”! Also, I want to be young again and have too much free time on my hands…
 

The African lake village of Ganvie is built on bamboo stilts above Lake Nokoue in the Republic of Benin. This watery wonder is the African 'Venice' with a population of 20,000.

Yueyaquan or the Crescent Moon Lake is an oasis and is located near Dunhuang in China.

The Bregenz Festival in Austria “Opera on the Lake” has been the home of some of the most amazing outdoor stages that have ever been built. These spectacular operas took place from 1946 to the present.

La Bohème 2001-2002

The lake on the Selfridges roof garden opened for the first time since World War II. The lake is located in London and dyed green and serves cocktails. In order to give the Selfridges a boating license, there were miles of steel used to reinforce the roof so that it would hold the lake.

See what 16-year old Matt Whitehurst did using either his super human powers or trickery.

What do you think this is? Do you have any ideas? Learn more after the jump.

This is one of the best optical illusions I’ve ever seen, maybe because it’s pretty cool and because it took me about 5 minutes to see the real thing.

What about you, what do you see in the picture, a lake?

Go inside the post to see what it really is.

In the Gippsland Lakes in Australia bioluminescence is a very unique, beautiful, and rare phenomenon that results from a chain of events such as flash floods, storms, and bushfires that triggers a population explosion of one particular type of algae. It is very strange to observe and might make the observer think that were being invaded by another extraterrestrial species.

A monster rose from the waters of this quiet lake and this photo was managed to be taken by a passerby!

Photographer Franco Banfi shows us the amazing beauty of the underwater world of the Swiss lake Sassolo, formed by the run-off of the Alps surrounding it.

The lake's ice formations are incredible.

Some cool pictures showing Mother Nature at her best await you inside the post.