114. More Time on the Pipeline

This post continues my observations of octopuses at the Pipeline site, Nelson Bay. I’ve been spending a bit of time there, watching the site’s recovery – especially the recovery of the soft corals, and all the life around them. These photos are from late November.

I concentrate on an area west of the Pipeline itself, probably pretty close to where the amazing field of soft corals was before their decline. On each dive in this sequence I saw something like six or eight octopuses (very conservati...