Octopus on pen shell. Photo by Claudette
Thank you, Claudette, for sending this new picture to us to solve the LION’S PAW– PEN SHELL mystery on my previous post Octopus in the Dark. It’s a pen shell…not a lion’s paw (agree?).
Claudette wrote “We guess this Octopus to be about 16″ from tip to tip! It stopped, posed and took off running I have about 4 pics of it! The color change was amazing, going from dark (on the shell) to white… like the sand!” . Thank you for taking so many pictures of this guy so we could check this shell out a bit closer….. although it kind of made me happy thinking it was a lion’s paw too.
I did not know that octy could run!!!
You’d be surprised how quickly they can run/scram/skiddadle/head-for-the-high-country/get-the-heck-out-of-dodge! ;)
This is so cool. I have had octopus on my mind too, I did a post yesterday and it was such a lovely surprise to see these pics today. Hope you are having a great day.
I’ve seen a couple of them on the beach, but they were tiny, not like this one. Thanks for sharing photos.