hi, my name's torin, i'm 11 years old and i live in south queensferry. an octopus in the sea by the harbour. it was quite extraordinary. we really weren't expecting it. we were just coming out of the sea, thinking about heading back. and suddenly torin shouted, there's an octopus! so, we'd never seen anything like that around there ever before. it was, like, fine. it didn't look like it was going to hurt you. but then it started making some weird sounds, so we gave it a little bit of space, to see what it would do. it wasn't going into the water, it was just staying at shore. so, we decided to help it with my shoe, well, my water shoe, try and get it into the water. it grabbed onto my shoe and almost stole it. he did a little swim along the coast and changed colour while doing it. and it was just fantastic to see. i mean, an octopus up on the beach, it's not a rare occurrence. _ they do come up onto beaches . if they get caught up by the tide, or if they are actually hunting for food. - octopus have hundreds. of suckers on their arms, and they can actual