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Flashing us AND giving us the stink eye. Second octo I failed to grab today.
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Juvenile. I found a whole piece of kelp that somehow got ripped up from the tide and I saw all sorts of cool stuff under the base of it like coral and hermit crabs. Well, I'm about ready to leave and I see something crawling. It turned out to be this poor little guy trying to get back to sea. I felt bad so I made sure the little guy got his wish and put him back to sea. Help from Robberfly for ID. Thank you.
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Juvenile. I found a whole piece of kelp that somehow got ripped up from the tide and I saw all sorts of cool stuff under the base of it like coral and hermit crabs. Well, I'm about ready to leave and I see something crawling. It turned out to be this poor little guy trying to get back to sea. I felt bad so I made sure the little guy got his wish and put him back to sea. Help from Robberfly for ID. Thank you.
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Pillar Point, California
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This selfie was taken BY THE OCTOPUS, who also took a 90-second mostly-dark video of the inside of its den (with a muffled soundtrack of Alison Young and I laughing hysterically). The octopus grabbed my camera with three tentacles, and grabbed rocks with the others. After a determined tug-of-war that snapped the nylon wrist strap, it carried the camera deep into its den and started pressing buttons with its tentacles. Alison braved beak and tentacles to rescue the camera (the octo was still holding it) - is there anything she won't do for Citizen Science? Thank you Alison! The alternate photo is the last one I took before the battle - you can see the first tentacle snaking towards the shiny camera...
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This selfie was taken BY THE OCTOPUS, who also took a 90-second mostly-dark video of the inside of its den (with a muffled soundtrack of Alison Young and I laughing hysterically). The octopus grabbed my camera with three tentacles, and grabbed rocks with the others. After a determined tug-of-war that snapped the nylon wrist strap, it carried the camera deep into its den and started pressing buttons with its tentacles. Alison braved beak and tentacles to rescue the camera (the octo was still holding it) - is there anything she won't do for Citizen Science? Thank you Alison! The alternate photo is the last one I took before the battle - you can see the first tentacle snaking towards the shiny camera...
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This selfie was taken BY THE OCTOPUS, who also took a 90-second mostly-dark video of the inside of its den (with a muffled soundtrack of Alison Young and I laughing hysterically). The octopus grabbed my camera with three tentacles, and grabbed rocks with the others. After a determined tug-of-war that snapped the nylon wrist strap, it carried the camera deep into its den and started pressing buttons with its tentacles. Alison braved beak and tentacles to rescue the camera (the octo was still holding it) - is there anything she won't do for Citizen Science? Thank you Alison! The alternate photo is the last one I took before the battle - you can see the first tentacle snaking towards the shiny camera...
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