Octopus filmed strolling back to sea after storm blows it onto Welsh beach
dailystar.co.ukWales Online reports."It's not something you see every day... rock pool and coastal wildlife is fascinating to look at, but it's important to remember not to touch or remove the wildlife," said Josh Pedley, one of the local guides who was enjoying a brisk walk alongside his partner and fellow guide, Fran Fitzpatrick."We ended up escorting one of the octopi back to the sea but that was under an exceptional circumstance."I know in recent storms some octopi have been found washed up dead recently, this was the first time I had ever seen any alive still," he said.The wildlife guides said tourists needed to respect wildlife more, following unnecessary animal deaths and seal pup abandonment.He added: "We get so many tourists here who aren't in tune with the natural world, that had this happened in summer, it probably would have ended up in someone's bucket to no end of prodding and poking."Fran, 28, moved to New Quay last year and said she often worried about tourists poking and prodding the wild animals.She said: "We have even had incidents of seal pups being abandoned by mothers when too many people took selfies with them or walked their dogs off lead too close and scared the parents away.
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