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Julia Clarke

"What is this thing doing right here?" – Washington hikers come across a giant octopus casually swimming just off the trail

Big orange octopus swimming near the reef in ocean.

Usually when we write about wildlife encounters on the trail, we're covering stories of bear attacks or defensive moose, but a group of Washington hikers recently got the surprise of their lives when they came across a giant octopus just off the trail.

"What is this thing doing right here?" asks Micah Moehller,in a video he shared to Reddit, which you can view below.

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