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We found this guy chasing crabs in a shallow rock pool. He went through several colour changes (deep purple, white, brown and green) before we left him to get back to the crabs.
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We found this guy chasing crabs in a shallow rock pool. He went through several colour changes (deep purple, white, brown and green) before we left him to get back to the crabs.
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"This one was lurking in the seaweed instead of under rocks as usual and I only spotted it when the ""seaweed"" moved like a snake along the bottom of the sea floor and disappeared. This one was much larger than the ones I usually see around here, with tentacles about 600mm each. The very distinctive orange on the suckers was also more of a brown colour."
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"This one was lurking in the seaweed instead of under rocks as usual and I only spotted it when the ""seaweed"" moved like a snake along the bottom of the sea floor and disappeared. This one was much larger than the ones I usually see around here, with tentacles about 600mm each. The very distinctive orange on the suckers was also more of a brown colour."
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"This one was lurking in the seaweed instead of under rocks as usual and I only spotted it when the ""seaweed"" moved like a snake along the bottom of the sea floor and disappeared. This one was much larger than the ones I usually see around here, with tentacles about 600mm each. The very distinctive orange on the suckers was also more of a brown colour."
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"This one was lurking in the seaweed instead of under rocks as usual and I only spotted it when the ""seaweed"" moved like a snake along the bottom of the sea floor and disappeared. This one was much larger than the ones I usually see around here, with tentacles about 600mm each. The very distinctive orange on the suckers was also more of a brown colour."
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"This one was lurking in the seaweed instead of under rocks as usual and I only spotted it when the ""seaweed"" moved like a snake along the bottom of the sea floor and disappeared. This one was much larger than the ones I usually see around here, with tentacles about 600mm each. The very distinctive orange on the suckers was also more of a brown colour."
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So great to start exploring a completely different part of Otaipango (at least 1km away from where I usually go) and still find a wheke :) This one was cruising around in the shallow sub tidal of a side gut and lurking in the seaweed, instead of under rocks as the others do at the main part. Due to the orange eyes this is the common octopus.
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So great to start exploring a completely different part of Otaipango (at least 1km away from where I usually go) and still find a wheke :) This one was cruising around in the shallow sub tidal of a side gut and lurking in the seaweed, instead of under rocks as the others do at the main part. Due to the orange eyes this is the common octopus.
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So great to start exploring a completely different part of Otaipango (at least 1km away from where I usually go) and still find a wheke :) This one was cruising around in the shallow sub tidal of a side gut and lurking in the seaweed, instead of under rocks as the others do at the main part. Due to the orange eyes this is the common octopus.
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So great to start exploring a completely different part of Otaipango (at least 1km away from where I usually go) and still find a wheke :) This one was cruising around in the shallow sub tidal of a side gut and lurking in the seaweed, instead of under rocks as the others do at the main part. Due to the orange eyes this is the common octopus.
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After 2 weeks of waging war on wattle (Acacia longifolia) and not much Nature Watching, it was wonderful to be back in the moana and within 5 minutes come across a wheke as usual. Seeing as they are quite common I guess that is why the english name is the common octopus - that would be right @pjd1 ? *LOL* Orange eyes = the common octopus or Macroctopus maorum
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After 2 weeks of waging war on wattle (Acacia longifolia) and not much Nature Watching, it was wonderful to be back in the moana and within 5 minutes come across a wheke as usual. Seeing as they are quite common I guess that is why the english name is the common octopus - that would be right @pjd1 ? *LOL* Orange eyes = the common octopus or Macroctopus maorum
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After 2 weeks of waging war on wattle (Acacia longifolia) and not much Nature Watching, it was wonderful to be back in the moana and within 5 minutes come across a wheke as usual. Seeing as they are quite common I guess that is why the english name is the common octopus - that would be right @pjd1 ? *LOL* Orange eyes = the common octopus or Macroctopus maorum
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After 2 weeks of waging war on wattle (Acacia longifolia) and not much Nature Watching, it was wonderful to be back in the moana and within 5 minutes come across a wheke as usual. Seeing as they are quite common I guess that is why the english name is the common octopus - that would be right @pjd1 ? *LOL* Orange eyes = the common octopus or Macroctopus maorum
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After 2 weeks of waging war on wattle (Acacia longifolia) and not much Nature Watching, it was wonderful to be back in the moana and within 5 minutes come across a wheke as usual. Seeing as they are quite common I guess that is why the english name is the common octopus - that would be right @pjd1 ? *LOL* Orange eyes = the common octopus or Macroctopus maorum
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After 2 weeks of waging war on wattle (Acacia longifolia) and not much Nature Watching, it was wonderful to be back in the moana and within 5 minutes come across a wheke as usual. Seeing as they are quite common I guess that is why the english name is the common octopus - that would be right @pjd1 ? *LOL* Orange eyes = the common octopus or Macroctopus maorum
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This cheeky wheke, not wanting to miss an opportunity to be on Nature Watch like all of the other wheke in the whanau, tapped the foot of @rongoa a few times to get our attention, else we would not have seen it. Once it had our attention the little poser then changed colour which I have not captured before. It is hard being a wheke model so at the end of the photo shoot, it shut it's eye to sleep (last photo). I will have to do more research on this phenomenon, for if the wheke are now letting us know they are there, it will make it easier for @pjd1 and whanau to find them *LOL*
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This cheeky wheke, not wanting to miss an opportunity to be on Nature Watch like all of the other wheke in the whanau, tapped the foot of @rongoa a few times to get our attention, else we would not have seen it. Once it had our attention the little poser then changed colour which I have not captured before. It is hard being a wheke model so at the end of the photo shoot, it shut it's eye to sleep (last photo). I will have to do more research on this phenomenon, for if the wheke are now letting us know they are there, it will make it easier for @pjd1 and whanau to find them *LOL*
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This cheeky wheke, not wanting to miss an opportunity to be on Nature Watch like all of the other wheke in the whanau, tapped the foot of @rongoa a few times to get our attention, else we would not have seen it. Once it had our attention the little poser then changed colour which I have not captured before. It is hard being a wheke model so at the end of the photo shoot, it shut it's eye to sleep (last photo). I will have to do more research on this phenomenon, for if the wheke are now letting us know they are there, it will make it easier for @pjd1 and whanau to find them *LOL*
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This cheeky wheke, not wanting to miss an opportunity to be on Nature Watch like all of the other wheke in the whanau, tapped the foot of @rongoa a few times to get our attention, else we would not have seen it. Once it had our attention the little poser then changed colour which I have not captured before. It is hard being a wheke model so at the end of the photo shoot, it shut it's eye to sleep (last photo). I will have to do more research on this phenomenon, for if the wheke are now letting us know they are there, it will make it easier for @pjd1 and whanau to find them *LOL*
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This little wheke was lurking under a ledge and sitting on a rock in the shallow subtidal zone and was first spotted when @rongoa was standing on rocks out of the water and by a pool that I was going to hop into. After popping up to see what was happening (first photo) and realising that it was only the local Nature Watchers, this wheke just laxed out and we have never seen one so lax as they are usually tucked away tightly. After taking a few photos front on, I slipped into the deep pool to see if I could get side shots and even though one eye opened to see what I was up to he didn't move, quite content to stay laxed out.(Photo 5) He even allowed me to put my camera about 250mm away and didn't even bother to touch it, as others have done in the past (and I have never been able to get the camera that close to one before). After about 20 minutes he decided to call it quits and slipped back (last photo). Photographed in situ. This wheke was not touched or harmed in any way by the photo shoot.
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This little wheke was lurking under a ledge and sitting on a rock in the shallow subtidal zone and was first spotted when @rongoa was standing on rocks out of the water and by a pool that I was going to hop into. After popping up to see what was happening (first photo) and realising that it was only the local Nature Watchers, this wheke just laxed out and we have never seen one so lax as they are usually tucked away tightly. After taking a few photos front on, I slipped into the deep pool to see if I could get side shots and even though one eye opened to see what I was up to he didn't move, quite content to stay laxed out.(Photo 5) He even allowed me to put my camera about 250mm away and didn't even bother to touch it, as others have done in the past (and I have never been able to get the camera that close to one before). After about 20 minutes he decided to call it quits and slipped back (last photo). Photographed in situ. This wheke was not touched or harmed in any way by the photo shoot.
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This little wheke was lurking under a ledge and sitting on a rock in the shallow subtidal zone and was first spotted when @rongoa was standing on rocks out of the water and by a pool that I was going to hop into. After popping up to see what was happening (first photo) and realising that it was only the local Nature Watchers, this wheke just laxed out and we have never seen one so lax as they are usually tucked away tightly. After taking a few photos front on, I slipped into the deep pool to see if I could get side shots and even though one eye opened to see what I was up to he didn't move, quite content to stay laxed out.(Photo 5) He even allowed me to put my camera about 250mm away and didn't even bother to touch it, as others have done in the past (and I have never been able to get the camera that close to one before). After about 20 minutes he decided to call it quits and slipped back (last photo). Photographed in situ. This wheke was not touched or harmed in any way by the photo shoot.