Hello all
an octopus update , we went back to the occy site today , not much to report , but the eggs seem to have gone , not sure if they have hatched or been eaten .
had a really cool encounter with an occy at another nearby site ,
my buddy found an occy living in a hole which happily played with a torch , after a while i came over and the occy climed on my camera , and played with it for a while , after that he climbed onto my hand , grabbed on and started swimming out into the open dragging me along !!!!, he had hold of me sucking on and swimming me along and also sort of walking himself along the bottom , this went on fro about 4/5 mins he was happy to hold onto me pulling along with a fair amount of force , he then took me to his occy den and pulled my hand inside his den and kept hold !!!
how cool , i then tried the RUB between the eyes trick , and he seemed to like it , he sort of wiggled his tentacles and just let me rub his forehead for another 2 mins
and my buddy got video with my camera, 12 mins in all, ill trim it down to 2 or 3 mins and post it on youtube ,
v cool creature .
so whats the reasoning behind the occy taking me for a swim?
is this behavior seen commonly????
video to come soon
Matty