Sanibel Octopus

[stemked]

I found two on my trip to Sanibel. One note if you do find this species of octopus, they are well known in their ability to give a painful bite from their beak.

[ljschrad]

we saw one in December there too...very cool in the shell..

[cesarob1990]

Of course I did! It was too amazing to let it die!

[DisneyPrincess1990]

how did u get it back to the sea, did u pick it up?

[cesarob1990]

I picked it up by the shell, I didn't touch the octopus.

[keokagal]

I hope you put the octopus back into the sea!

[bribri1164]

neva mind thts an octopus!!

[bribri1164]

thts not a octopus its a starfish!

[fa22raptorinferno]

can you snorkel and scuba dive in coquina beach sanibel? or anywhere in sanibel? if so let me know im going there june 14

[obsessong]

I love it! You must have been very surprised when tentacles started poking out of the shell!

[danyell2008]

This is a lightning welk shell..I just got back from Ft. Myers and have become a huge shell lover,,great shell and the critter is great

[Ridgid]

Take me to the bubble room...!

[hockeygod3768]

im currently in sanibel watching this haha. In the past two days i have found 4 shells about 8-12 inches long. HUGE! but i've never been lucky enough to find an octopus in any of them! nice video

[Lesliportia]

Captiva and Sanibel island is such a neat place. Cool Video!!!!

[knittingmouse]

wow! First I never was so lucky as to find a shell that big on Sanibel. And secondly if that had come out of the shell!!!!!!Well......I would have jumped out of my skin! Nice that you got that memory digitized!

[cesarob1990]

The shell was actually no longer than my hand, it looks bigger in the video. The head of the octopus was a little smaller than a golf ball. It was absolutely one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced!!!

[knittingmouse]

The biggest shell that I found was half the size of my thumb. But I did enjoy searching for shells along the sand. Keep in mind I'm from North Dakota so all of this was very new to me. I did find a jellyfish. I had only seen those on Animal Planet. I did snorkel up to some crabs. I would have loved to have seen that octopus!

[cesarob1990]

That was my first time there. I am from Iowa. We had to get up pretty early to get the good shells. Had several larger than our hands, found one that was huge, bigger than my size 9 feet but it was live so we had to leave it.