Octopus Adventures

"Twice a month the shore experiences extreme tides. When the sun, earth, and moon are in a straight line, their combined tug causes spring, or extra high and low tides. When the sun and moon are in right-angle position with regard to the earth, their influence is less, as the respective pulls tend to cancel each other out. The ensuing neap tides, as they are called, have a small rise and fall. Excessive spring tides occur in May and June and in November and December, prior to and around the summer and winter solstices." ~An Island Called California, p.3

California Aglaja (Navanax Inermis)

Black Sea Hare (Aplysia Vaccaria)

Coralline Algae (Lithothamnion sp.)

The dark area beneath the rock slab in the foreground is the Octopus' lair

My 5yo found the first octopus on one side of this rock after seeing it, the following video shows how we found the next one on the other side of the same rock.