“My brother stepped on this blue-ringed octopus in the sand accidentally. It was dead and covered in sand, and he thought it was a jellyfish, so he scooped it up between two rocks and brought it to me so we could put it down and check what it was. We poured water over it to wash the sand off and we did we noticed the shiny blue rings. The way they reflect light looks like they’re glowing.

We are aware of how dangerous they are and spent a while afterwards researching them. They can paralyze and kill a human in under half an hour and contain enough poison to kill 26 adult humans. It’s so deadly but so beautiful.”