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02-03-2007, 10:42 PM
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Found an octopus in my pocket!
Just thought I would share a little story from my Mexico trip last week.
On the first day of our holiday I took my little girls down to the beach for a walk. While exploring a tide pool, I found a seashell. I checked to make sure it wasn’t alive, than placed in my pocket. A few minutes later I put another shell in my pocket. To my surprise, there was something wet and slimy in my pocket. I thought it was going to by the foot from the live shell. However, it turned out to be a small octopus. I tried to place it back into the shell, but it just sat on the rim giving me the evil eye. I gently put him back in the ocean. I’m not sure how well he will survive that close to shore, but maybe he will swim out to deeper water. I,m glad I was in Mexico, 1000 miles away from home, because I would have been so tempted to put him/her in my tank (although I know what caos that would cause). DSC_8944[2].jpg dsc_8951.jpg
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02-03-2007, 11:28 PM
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good thing it was mexico and not australia. A little blue ring in your pocket would certainly suck any fun out of your vacation.
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02-03-2007, 11:32 PM
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well being dead kind of does that to any vacation, now doesn't it..
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02-03-2007, 11:33 PM
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I agree. If I was in australia I definitely would not have taken it out of my pocket with my hands.
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02-04-2007, 02:32 AM
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Wow that is very cool. Not something that happens every day!!
When I was 11 and visiting my sister (who lives down under) I picked up a shell from a beach near Taronga Zoo and put it in my pocket. Although it wasn't a bluering octopus that turned out to be hitching a ride, just a hermit. 
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02-04-2007, 02:19 PM
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Very Cool, It'll be fine. He probably feasts on stuff trapped in the tide pools, and never goes out to the big open Sea.
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02-04-2007, 05:19 PM
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Glad it was no blue ringed octo
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02-04-2007, 07:56 PM
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It didnt bite you? When I was on the west coast of the island I picked up one in a tide pool and it was about the size of a quarter and started to feast on my hand. Little bugger wouldnt let go and bit me about six times
 ... so now he is in his own little aquarium.Matt
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