Favoritos de joemdo

Seabird, quite far out, dark above, with dark short tail, white patches on the underside of the wing near the tip. Was chasing a Laughing Gull in the picture but had a direct flight with occasional gliding. Perhaps a Jaeger?

Observed a few years ago during a shark tagging expedition with UM. Apparently this small shark had attempted to feed on one of the baited yo-yos, but apparently a bigger shark got it and consumed both the bait and the sharpnose. When the yo-yo was pulled out, only the head of the smaller shark remained.

There are millions of very small creatures at the beach right now. They are hard to photograph properly. Here is a video to help identify them. This was not the thickest concentration.

I was only stung a little bit despite swimming through clouds of them. I may have been stung by something else. The schools of baitfish seemed to be enjoying them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBLifuJBII

I thought it was a dead octopus, lying on the bottom. I picked it up to examine it and take a picture. I slowly realized it was still alive. I felt water coming out of the syphon and its tentacles lightly hanging on to me.
IT only had two tentacles left and seemed weak. It didn't seem very safe out on the open sandy bed, so I took it over to the rock jetty to leave it there where it might find a cubby hole to heal in.
At the rocks it was able to change color and slowly slip away into a crevice.