octopus
Hi!
Scott and I went to the beach last Monday, the water is nice and warm. I found an octopus and a hermit crab!
The hermit crab surprised me, because I was carrying it around for a while, thinking it was just a pretty shell that I was going to keep, until it the crab reached out and touched me. I told Scott some people keep them as pets, and assuming I wanted to keep it he asked me to let it go. As I put it back in the ocean, I said "alright, but if I find an octopus, I'm keeping it!" This is because, as I child, I decided an octopus would make a cool pet. They can change color, and are very smart, especially considering they are invertebrates. Moments after saying this, I found an octopus, half buried in the sand, near my bag. It was alive, I could tell that because it was moving and breathing. When it breathed, its whole head/body inflated like a balloon, and deflated, looking flat. Deflated it was about the size of a normal sized balloon with no air, but with arms. It did not look like it was feeling very well, so I put it back in the water. I tried to rinse it off, and get it wet, while still holding it, so I could observe it for a bit, but the waves washed it out of my hand.
I would not actually have brought it home, because I do not have the set up to keep one alive.
Scott and I went to the beach last Monday, the water is nice and warm. I found an octopus and a hermit crab!
The hermit crab surprised me, because I was carrying it around for a while, thinking it was just a pretty shell that I was going to keep, until it the crab reached out and touched me. I told Scott some people keep them as pets, and assuming I wanted to keep it he asked me to let it go. As I put it back in the ocean, I said "alright, but if I find an octopus, I'm keeping it!" This is because, as I child, I decided an octopus would make a cool pet. They can change color, and are very smart, especially considering they are invertebrates. Moments after saying this, I found an octopus, half buried in the sand, near my bag. It was alive, I could tell that because it was moving and breathing. When it breathed, its whole head/body inflated like a balloon, and deflated, looking flat. Deflated it was about the size of a normal sized balloon with no air, but with arms. It did not look like it was feeling very well, so I put it back in the water. I tried to rinse it off, and get it wet, while still holding it, so I could observe it for a bit, but the waves washed it out of my hand.
I would not actually have brought it home, because I do not have the set up to keep one alive.