Dugong Dive Center Blog

The Octopus in a Glass, Amazing creatures, an Octopus use a broken glass and a shell for its shelter. The Veined Octopus lives on sand and can be easy spotted by predators the moment it is emerging to feed. That’s why it is using shells, human settlements and even coconut shells for its protection. The octopus has a good grip on its “house” that make it even difficult for humans to pull the shells apart. See also “octopus on a catwalk” at our Video gallery. The dugong watching site “Turtle Islands” has not only Dugongs to offer, you find Frog fishes, different kind of cuttle fish, octopus, scorpion fishes like stone fishes that hide in the sand, Cockatoo fish, different kind of pipe fishes, Snake eels, many Green Turtles that like to eat on the same sea grass species plus much much more … Pictures by Bernd Doernen and Mike Muerkens from “Turtle Islands” Busuanga / Palawan during a dugong watching trip. DF