Woman Spots The Cutest Little Stowaway Hitching A Ride On Her Boat

“I think he was pretty surprised by all of the commotion."

Rachel Strohl was going about her routine on her boat one evening when she suddenly heard yelling coming from downstairs. She went to check it out and discovered that her friend had run into an unexpected stowaway — an octopus.

Strohl was just as surprised as her friend was to see him making his way down the hallway. Apparently, he’d seen the boat and decided he wanted to hitch a ride, unaware of all the commotion it would cause. Strohl was a bit confused at first as to how he’d actually managed to climb aboard but quickly figured it out based on the trail the little guy left.

“He climbed up the side of the boat, in through a small porthole in my bedroom and made it all the way across the windowsill [and] down the hall to another bedroom,” Strohl told The Dodo.

Rachel Strohl

Of course, once the octopus heard all the yelling, he realized this wasn’t exactly the quiet ride he’d been hoping for and was pretty thrilled when the captain scooped him up and brought him back to the ocean.

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Rachel Strohl

“I think he was pretty surprised by all of the commotion because [he] practically leapt from the captain's hands and jetted off immediately when he got back into the water,” Strohl said.

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Rachel Strohl

No one on the boat had expected to see an octopus that night — but to be fair, the octopus hadn’t expected to run into a bunch of humans, either. Everyone was pretty shocked across the board, and luckily they were able to work together to get it figured out.

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