Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
Nov 4th 2008 | 1:50 am
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
that is one scary story, so glad shes going to be ok 
Nov 4th 2008 | 9:09 am
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
OMG Kat so glad to hear shes doing well, thanks for the warning too
Nov 4th 2008 | 11:33 am
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
Just be aware these little (they are tiny) critters are out and about.
Daughter has been hospitalised, thankfully not a full bite or she wouldnt have made it to hospital...thank god she was with Aussie mates who knew what to do with her!
She was jumping off the rocks at port noarlunga - bottom of the wooden steps at southport beach, then climbing back up the rocks, thought she had jagged her foot on the rocks.
Quite quickly overcome - saw the poison working up her foot/leg and went dizzy/sick/slurring etc.
Going to take a while to get over but thankfully she will make a full recovery. She cant talk properly but thats prob a blessing in disguise.
The BRO have recently had their babies, the mums are protective but also dying - so looks like it was a dying one that got her as not as toxic as usual.
They hang out in rockpools usually, and discarded cans/bottles etc, port noarlunga beach has them in the rock pools there and along seaford/southport etc. They are very pretty - but deadly, usually causing paralysis which causes death. There is NO antidote!
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/weppner/...ed_octopus.htm
Daughter has been hospitalised, thankfully not a full bite or she wouldnt have made it to hospital...thank god she was with Aussie mates who knew what to do with her!
She was jumping off the rocks at port noarlunga - bottom of the wooden steps at southport beach, then climbing back up the rocks, thought she had jagged her foot on the rocks.
Quite quickly overcome - saw the poison working up her foot/leg and went dizzy/sick/slurring etc.
Going to take a while to get over but thankfully she will make a full recovery. She cant talk properly but thats prob a blessing in disguise.
The BRO have recently had their babies, the mums are protective but also dying - so looks like it was a dying one that got her as not as toxic as usual.
They hang out in rockpools usually, and discarded cans/bottles etc, port noarlunga beach has them in the rock pools there and along seaford/southport etc. They are very pretty - but deadly, usually causing paralysis which causes death. There is NO antidote!
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/weppner/...ed_octopus.htm
The cans protect the octopus from its natural predator the Snapper........hope your daughter is felling better....................mm
Nov 4th 2008 | 12:23 pm
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
I remember travelling with an Australian girlfriend in Turkey. I was paddling in the rockpools and an octopus crawled over my foot. She went ape-shit. Thought I was dead.
Don't mess with the eight-legged ones, but only in Australia.
Don't mess with the eight-legged ones, but only in Australia.
Nov 5th 2008 | 10:13 am
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
Wishing your daughter a fast recovery!!
Nov 5th 2008 | 11:35 am
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
OMG that is awful!! I am so glad your daughter is going to be ok, but that must have been really scary. I have never heard of these things so thanks for the warning. Mine LOVE clambering over the rock pools!!!
Love
Rudi
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Love
Rudi
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Nov 5th 2008 | 1:06 pm
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Re: Blue Ringed Octopus - WARNING
They're not THAT rare - we see them regularly when diving around Sydney and the NSW coast. They are pretty hard to spot until they feel threatened and show their amazing blue rings/lines.
This shot is from a shallow dive in Sydney harbour
Glad to hear your daughter's making a good recovery!
Graham
This shot is from a shallow dive in Sydney harbour
Glad to hear your daughter's making a good recovery!
Graham
