During our annual night tidepooling excursion last week, visitors and volunteers saw nudibranchs, a sunflower star, and a huge number of very active kelp crabs. There were also numerous reports of encounters with our resident crowd pleaser, the red octopus (Octopus rubescens).
One visitor took four short videos of octopus encounters, each showing fascinating behavior such as changing color and texture to blend with surroundings, disappearing into nearly invisible cracks, squirting water, and even catching a small crab! Here are links to the videos on YouTube: