Well ...finally another Gloomy. My swim yesterday resulted in finding a very young octopus. Today I raced back to the island after work to find the little one still there, I have to admit it did take me 5 minutes to find it. Even though it hadn't moved more than 15 cm from the day before.
This one seems rather shy compared to most that I have found, maybe it was the camera because on Monday afternoon it reached out within a minute or two. As they usually do it wrapped it's arm around my finger and tried pulling it in towards it's den. Yesterday as you can see by the photos of it peering over the rock lip it didn't want anything to do with me, even when I gave it some food just before I left it pushed it away from the den. The rock pool is the emptiest I have ever seen it, there is no sand on the bottom and there is virtually no weed or algae. Normally I see a couple of small urchins but because there's no cover there were dozens of them ranging in size from 2cm to over 10cm and colours from orange to a deep purple.
This one seems rather shy compared to most that I have found, maybe it was the camera because on Monday afternoon it reached out within a minute or two. As they usually do it wrapped it's arm around my finger and tried pulling it in towards it's den. Yesterday as you can see by the photos of it peering over the rock lip it didn't want anything to do with me, even when I gave it some food just before I left it pushed it away from the den. The rock pool is the emptiest I have ever seen it, there is no sand on the bottom and there is virtually no weed or algae. Normally I see a couple of small urchins but because there's no cover there were dozens of them ranging in size from 2cm to over 10cm and colours from orange to a deep purple.