In summer I always like to discover new places to snorkel and this time I decided to visit the Llop Marí cove, a gravel cove located on a rocky platform that was an ancient Roman quarry.
It's also known that the sea lions, before their disappearance in these lands, took refuge in this cave.
A little advice: if you're planning to snorkel here for first time, I recommend you to be careful because there are a couple of siphons that suck when there's a bit of swell.
The story that I'm telling you today is none other than the illusion of meeting this cute small young Mediterranean octopus (Octopus Vulgaris) that I'm going to introduce to you, that I tried to capture as best as possible with my GoPro Hero 8, also disturbing it as little as possible.
As you already know if you have been following my blog for a while, I already had a close encounter with an adult Mediterranean octopus with a missing leg that showed me its den (you can watch it here).
Spanish legislation allows the adults sport capture as long as you not exceed 3 daily pieces or 5 kg of one of the pieces, per individual license and it has to be fished in free lung underwater mode.
However, and as is common sense, hunting down these small young specimens is prohibited and entails high fines; neither should you try to catch them or take them out of the water to take selfies, as I have seen some people do.
In my case, I enjoy just watching them.
Lots of respect for one of the smartest animals on the planet.
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Video recorded with a GoPro Hero 8.
Photographs are screenshots taken from my video.
Sources on which I relied to give some accurate info about Llop Marí cove and cave: (1), (2)
Source on which I relied to give some accurate info about Spanish legislation about octopus captures: (1)
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