Collecting sea-shells alongside sea-shores is one of the favorite hobbies of kids. Playing with harmless turtles and fishes on the beach is no news for any tourist who loves to visit the seas and oceans. Similarly, a tourist who was vacationing alongside the picturesque blue waters of Australia spotted a beautiful water creature on the shores.
The tourist posted the video online with a caption that reads in Mandarin, “Such a beautiful octopus”, reported Fox News.
The video was later on shared on Reddit and went viral within no time. Netizens were taken aback looking at the horrifying footage as the ‘beautiful octopus’ was nothing but a poisonous blue-ringed octopus that can sting a person to death.
Tourist free handling a blue-ringed octopus on tik tok… from australia
The tourist in the video shakes the venomous octopus to drop it back into the water. And they luckily escape the deadly sting of the sea creature. Calling it a lucky escape Netizens have slammed the tourist brutally.
The blue-ringed octopus is one of the deadliest marine creatures on the planet. Earlier Julie Tattam shared a similar case of spotting the attractive but venomous blue-ringed octopus in a Facebook post.
BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS IN CRONULLA. Super scary moment snorkelling at Cronulla (Salmon Haul beach) yesterday. My 11yr old…
Posted by Julie Tattam on Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Tattam shared the horrifying incident where her 11-year-old daughter caught the blue-ringed octopus covered under a shell in her hands. The mother warned all the people visiting Cronulla Beach in Sydney to beware of these deadly creatures.
Have you ever had such a horrifying encounter with a deadly creature? I’ve never, nor I wish to have!