112. Three Days at the Pipe, 2 & 3

This is a continuation of the previous post.

Day 2

On the second day, I went back to the same area (a little east of the Pipeline). This is quite a site now, and I saw a lot of octopuses. I was wandering too much to do a reliable count, but counting photos of clearly distinct individuals, I saw at least 6 (probably more). The area was also full of small cuttlefish, Sepia plangon, hovering watchfully.

The most interesting part of the dive was a sequence of behaviors by one octopus, a medium-to-l...