--- description: From cliff climbers to underwater elephants, here's a handful of photos to get your weekend started right title: Feel Good Friday: 9 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfff78c3ef9942108/69869ec755a85970d2a82157/9d8ad607a6f44cc9878f3a1f6e99f813-0.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Feel Good Friday: 9 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 8, 2014 12:00 PM CUT  An elephant immerses behind a window in the elephants' indoor pool at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany on Aug. 5, 2014. An elephant immerses behind a window in the elephants' indoor pool at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany on Aug. 5, 2014.Jens Meyer—AP by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 8, 2014 12:00 PM CUT  Pilots John Klatt, right, flying the blue Air National Guard MX-S airplane, and Jeff Boerboon, left, flying the red Jack's Links Extra 300L airplane, fly in formation above Seattle on Aug. 2, 2014. Ted S. Warren—AP  A father and son play in the pool of Kibbutz Be'ery in Israel on Aug. 7, 2014. Omer Messinger—NurPhoto/Corbis  A climber walks over a 'Slackline' at the cliffs of Stoja near Pula, Croatia on Aug. 5, 2014 . Thomas Lohnes—Getty Images  An under-water picture of a swimmer next to an exemplar of Rhizostoma Pulmo Jellyfish on the east coast of Sardinia island, Italy on Aug. 2, 2014. Marco Mattana—EPA  An elephant immerses behind a window in the elephants' indoor pool at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany on Aug. 5, 2014. Jens Meyer—AP  A boy dives in the pool of Kibbutz Be'ery in Israel on Aug. 7, 2014. Omer Messinger—NurPhoto/Corbis  Andreas (43) of Austria climbs in an 8 to 10 meter-high cave of Stoja near Pula, Croatia on Aug. 4, 2014 . Thomas Lohnes—Getty Images  A young woman dances during the 2014 O.Z.O.R.A. Festival, described by organizers as the Psychedelic Tribal Gathering, near the village of Ozora, south of Budapest on Aug. 2, 2014. Balazs Mohai—EPA ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3089880/feel-good-friday-9-fun-photos-to-start-your-weekend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3089880/feel-good-friday-9-fun-photos-to-start-your-weekend/"},"headline":"Feel Good Friday: 9 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend","datePublished":"2014-08-08T12:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:30.774Z","description":"From cliff climbers to underwater elephants, here's a handful of photos to get your weekend started right","url":"https://time.com/3089880/feel-good-friday-9-fun-photos-to-start-your-weekend/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Photos","Germany","Italy","pictures","Zoo","Elephant","Planes","croatia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfff78c3ef9942108/69869ec755a85970d2a82157/9d8ad607a6f44cc9878f3a1f6e99f813-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfff78c3ef9942108/69869ec755a85970d2a82157/9d8ad607a6f44cc9878f3a1f6e99f813-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"An elephant immerses behind a window in the elephants' indoor pool at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany on Aug. 5, 2014.","caption":"An elephant immerses behind a window in the elephants' indoor pool at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany on Aug. 5, 2014.","creditText":"Jens Meyer—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3089880/feel-good-friday-9-fun-photos-to-start-your-weekend/","name":"Feel Good Friday: 9 Fun Photos to Start Your Weekend"}}]}] ```