A young girl and her family who found a giant Pacific octopus stranded in a state park at low tide helped rescue the creature by alerting park authorities. The octopus likely would not have survived without all of their help.
On March 15, a family from Vancouver, British Columbia, was visiting Bay View State Park, Washington, when they came across a coral-colored giant Pacific octopus, the largest octopus species in the world. Because the tide had retreated, the roughly 8-foot-long creature was struggling with its almost 100-pound body weight in the mud about 200 meters from the water’s edge.
