Indo-Pacific blue ringed octopus
I always want to see an Indo-Pacific blue ringed octopus - not only because it’s uniquely, deadly poisonous to animal thousand times bigger than it, but because of it’s beauty and difficulty to spot. Traveled to Bali, Lembeh, Komodo… and haven’t have chance to meet one. Chong Pheng even showed me his sample movie taken in Lembeh and I was so excited seeing it (although I didn’t expressed it - my ego) - until…
Perhentian??? Martin, Fatcat, Eric and me, were diving at the depth of 18m in Market, I spotted a sea horse small like the peanut, and next to it is an ‘cuttlefish’ (about 1.5cm). I called Martin to have a look, and comes Eric with his camera, taken a few shots. On the board, Martin keeps on telling us he saw the blue spot, and it’s an octopus, but me and Eric didn’t notice (we were convinced that it’s an octopus). We went back to Bubbles and check out the images - below is the observation we got:
Image 1: just like any little octopus
Image 2: Martin may be a bit too near to it, it started to show the ‘blue dot’
Image 3: Ya, ya, it’s a blue ring
Image credit to: Mr. Eric Ng and Martin from Bubbles
I was so happy that I finally saw one myself… but never expect to see it here. Now Bubbles have found the great muck diving site, I think I’ll go there more often. lalalalalalala - read the previous post about other stuffs we saw there!
