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Wolf eels and octopus, oh my!
Oct. 14th, 2023 06:09 pmThis is the video from last Saturday's dives at the Hood Canal. When we booked months ago, we were debating between last weekend and this weekend. Given that it's been raining much of the day, we made the right choice!
We saw a free-swimming wolf eel. I love those ugly guys, and it's always great to see them like that, because mostly you just see the head poking out of a hole, which gives no indication of quite how much eel is hidden back there. This one was about 6 feet long.
We also saw a giant pacific octopus sitting out in the open instead of tucked into a cave. Unfortunately this one was deep, at around 90 feet/28m, so the lighting is bad. Anywhere my light shines on it, it looks insanely red, and anywhere out of the light just looks green, which is the only colour that makes it that deep. Still cool though!
https://youtu.be/PVmp2GazWUs
We saw a free-swimming wolf eel. I love those ugly guys, and it's always great to see them like that, because mostly you just see the head poking out of a hole, which gives no indication of quite how much eel is hidden back there. This one was about 6 feet long.
We also saw a giant pacific octopus sitting out in the open instead of tucked into a cave. Unfortunately this one was deep, at around 90 feet/28m, so the lighting is bad. Anywhere my light shines on it, it looks insanely red, and anywhere out of the light just looks green, which is the only colour that makes it that deep. Still cool though!
https://youtu.be/PVmp2GazWUs
