My one and only experience with them happened in Belize. I had been snorkelling and turning over rocks when all of the sudden, before I even noticed it, there was a cloud of black ink and a little octopus darted away. Now as an adult I would just let the poor terrified creature escape, but at that age I was absolutely hellbent on finding it. The process of turning over random rocks and being inked was repeated a few more times before I finally cornered it and managed to grab it. My cousins and I dug a hole in the sand with water in the bottom, and observed the octopus changing colors. I remember it shifting through shades of translucent blue and red.
My cousin caught a trunk fish with his bare hands that same day too. Another weird creature, though surely not nearly as intelligent as an octopus.
My cousin caught a trunk fish with his bare hands that same day too. Another weird creature, though surely not nearly as intelligent as an octopus.