hey want to see something gorgeous but viscerally discomfiting?
okey doke!
The Mauritius “underwater waterfall” is not a true waterfall but an naturally occurring optical! In the sense that that’s not water falling, it’s sand and silt shifting! Shifting down a 4000-meter-deep abyssal drop. It is in fact exactly as deep as it looks, sorry :)
Other fun facts about Mauritius include:
that’s where Dodo birds were from!
the entire island has an abnormally strong gravitational pull
and also they just discovered it sits on top of a lost supercontinent or whatever. idk that part’s less cool than the gravity thing
ok i spent 40 minutes learning how to compress a gif for you fucks, please tell me it works now
A new abyss with New Friends!
a baby!!!





























