Giant Pacific Octopus

A giant pacific octopus visited the creek out front of our house. This was the first time any of the neighbors had seen an octopus there in the 20-30 years they'd been living there. The creek is freshwater emptying into the ocean, this guy was quite far up the creek, perhaps after the salmon that were also headed upstream.

If you want more details check out my blogpost:
http://southofultimathule.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/alaskanoctopus/

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Giant Pacific Octopus
• Alaska
• Southcentral
• brackish water
• creek

[southofultimathule]

I added a little info about the video per "Crimson Refractions" request, I didn't realize this video would draw any attention, this was my first youtube upload and I did it to be able to post this on my blog. I'm glad so many are finding it interesting, it was really neat to get to hang out with an octopus at such close range.

[CrimsonRefractions]

It's a nice video, but I'm sure that I'm speaking for everyone when I say: We would LOVE to see some description of the video. The where, the how, what's your story?

[southofultimathule]

@CrimsonRefractions : thanks for your response, I filled in a little of the story and more can be found on the above mention blog post

[EVLWNS]

Awesome.

[Peter5930]

@CrimsonRefractions It was swimming in a brackish creek in Alaska at low tide, according to the poster's blog.

[dookiecheez]

Wish I could see that in person.

[thursdaypostal]

Amazing! I would have loved to have seen that in real life.