Lake Myvatn in Iceland (and Lake Akan in Japan) are the only two places in the world in which you can find visible quantities of natural moss balls or Marimo in the water and on it's beaches. Marimo is a Japanese word that consists of “ball” (mari; 毬) and “algae” (mo; 藻). It is a very rare ball formed by Aegagrophila Linnaei, a species of algae that could be found in limited number of lakes and seas in the Northern hemisphere. The shape is formed gradually by rotation on the sand caused by the flow of water. Both lakes are protected and it is definitely illegal to try to take a moss. I thought thy were pretty cool :).
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