What are your favorite jnteractions with the natural world? I choose the octopus. Most octopuses will want to check on you if you’re patient. [1000058008] This is what heappened to me during my 7 day vacation in Greece! It was so friendly I managed to take my new profile picture!

I think the one I remember most fondly was one Summer as a teen, when I was napping on this, I don’t know if english has a word for it, like a hill but made exclusively of rock, anyway, this rock the island our Summerhouse was mainly composed of. Had been staring out to the open sea. Then I suddenly…

I thought this was pretty awesome. This deer had absolutely no fear as it waded through rushing river! I just watched from the bank.

I don’t think I’d be able to choose just one. Every time I wonder into nature is full of precious encounters and new little friends… Every encounter with a Carpathian blue slug feels like a dream! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225742590 The time a stonefly decided to come chill on my f…

This katydid trying to eat me, chewed my dead skin a bit. Katydids are a treat to hold. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/312010485 [PXL_20250906_164535101]

The best interactions are the ones where I didn’t have to try to have them – the creature came to me. Like this American Snout that came to drink the skin salts on my toes.

I don’t have any observations of these but these are my favorites: I’ve swan with sharks, been in the middle of a massive feeding frenzy in the surf of California, seen fish give birth right in front of me, had a mule deer lead us through red rock canyon in Colorado like a freaking potronus from Har…

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