The Trinity

You will probably think this is odd. Yesterday, I was totally gifted with sightings of at least 8 octopus! Banner day.

So today after church, I was almost ready to get out of the water when I thought, Please God! Give me one more octopus! It would be like 3 reminding me of the Trinity!

And then it appeared:

See it? Peeking out at me. So I did get to spot 3 octopuses. Father, Son, Holy Spirit has power!!!

And here is the octopus showing its siphon. And the shell that it probably had for lunch. They do that: blow the shells out of their dens after they eat the animal.

 And it got dark. Didn't like me looking, apparently.

But #1 octopus was also great. I had seen a spear fisherman about 2 minutes previously, so I was a bit leery of actually seeing an octopus, knowing that many spear fishermen like to catch the tako! (Boo, hiss.) And then I spotted this big adult octopus, with the accompanying Rock Mover Wrasse, who continued to dog that poor octopus!

 I was in the deep part of the pond, so couldn't get as close as I'd like.
Luckily, the spear fisherman had swum away.

The two eyes are in between those 2 orange parts of its breathing apparatus. And it made its skin bumpy too.

Darn wrasses! In your face. 

 Wrasse was still watching the octopus to make sure it wasn't missing anything.

And rubbing up on it, too.

 Alone at last. Actually it should be alone at first...this was how it was when I first saw it.

And octopus #2:

 See the siphon inside the den, behind the rocks? They are wicked clever.

Here you can see the tentacles behind the rocks. Of course, I would hide also if I thought an unthinking tourist was going to walk on me!

Siphon deep inside the den.

 A mess of goat fish near the crossover point.

 Tangs out for an afternoon swim.

Apparently, I am scarier than I knew. This Humu was about to disappear in the hole.

 Cowry shells hiding in a niche in the coral.

A cranberry drupe shell

 Don't they look rather like Easter eggs in a basket?!

 Overloaded Urchins

Palm trees and clouds

 Pencil Urchin up close

 Pink Coral

 Pretty Parrot fish

Shrimp hiding. If you hear popping when you're in the water, it is often the shrimp making their noise.

 I think this is the same shell, with crab, that I found last week!

And an upside down Cowry shell. 

 And an urchin with mostly plant material instead of big rocks and shells. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the after church swim: nice water, low surf and only one person almost bumped me. It's a good Sunday!

Oops! Almost forgot the Juvenile Rock Mover wrasse and the Lizard fish for my sweetheart:

OK, now I'm good. Thanks for viewing and reading: this is my 350th post on Google!

So many octopuses, I almost lost count!

Hello! I saw at least 8 octopuses...I say at least because there were two more that I wasn't sure if I'd already seen them. A good problem to have! 

I'll just throw some pix up and you can decide: mostly I can tell if the rocks surrounding the den are the same. But that doesn't work if the octopus moves! Which is what #1 did:

 This photo previous is after it flew around a bit. The one following is when I first saw it. The wrasse on the right was pestering it. (I put up the short video...https://youtu.be/ocVk3GTEaCo  )

I should send it to Ellen so she can play it while Twitch is catching his breath. ha.
I really have to hold up the fingers to count the octopus at the beginning of each octopus...that would help keep track.

 He'e in the beginning with rock mover. 



to the left of these words

 He'e with horns

 Nice light.....on its skin and eye

Siphon and bumps

 The eye is in the v of the rocks....

the white is the siphon

See how bumpy their skins can get? Eye is again in the v near the bottom

 Horns again. Eye on the left

 I actually showed an octopus to a couple today...they watched for a few seconds then swam away. How could they?! I decided perhaps they couldn't see it...or didn't care. (!!!!!)

 The siphon below shows what the water looks like after it blows water at me...all the sand gets up in it.

 Tentacles!!!! And it saw me, because it sank down into the den. A REALLY good one, too! I couldn't see any of it, as it was hiding below the rocks.

Oy, I love these animals...the octopuses, that is. 

 Above, a pair of Brighteye Damsel fish.

 Cowry hiding

 Whitemouth Moray taking a look.

 A herd of goats

Hawaiian Green Lion Fish

 And a large Honu swam by

 Juvenile Barred File fish

 Moorish Idol

Needle fish

 Pencil urchins

Young Pinktail Trigger

 Rainbow octopus. Siphon and eye just above

 Devil Scorpion Fish, hiding under an overhang.

 Seal snoozing

Snowflake Moray eel

the white line to the left of these words is the white line on its tail.

 This young Pinktail hid in the hole ..see photo above. I didn't realize they did that too. I mostly see Humu hiding in holes that way. I guess it's a trigger fish thing

In the upper right corner, a very small Rock Mover wrasse juvenile!

It's on the left in this one

Two urchins, fully laden down with shells and rocks.
Gosh, such a great swim. I am truly thankful for nice water and lots of octopuses!