Octopussy
Watch as this little ‘devilfish’ makes his way safely back to the ocean after we released him from our prawn trap. I hope he considers himself lucky to live another day to eat more of our prawns!
We quite often catch small fish and octopus in our prawn traps as well as galatheid crabs - and prawns of course! I don’t often touch the octopus if they are larger than me… haha… that’s rare, but their arms seems to extend forever and they have very sharp beaks. Besides that their suction cups feel weird and are sometimes difficult to loosen, especially considering they have 8 legs and you never know where all the legs are at all times. The small octopus are cute though and I was glad to let this one go free in Pop’s bay!
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May 24th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Here well arranged and varied posts appear again and again. I look gladly here past. Many greetings from the center of Germany!
May 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Well that’s just amazing! I enjoyed learning about your exploits! I am amazed to see that there are octopus in Canada?!?!?!? What body of water was he found in?
I can also detect your Canadian accent.
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
That is really cute and a look at an almost alien world for most of us. I remember reading that they discover octupi are actually very intelligent creatures, which is suprising to many that only see them as yucky-looking.