KAYAKER’S LOVE AFFAIR IS SEALED WITH AN OCTOPUS
A KIWI kayaker copped an unexpected close encounter with marine life when a seal slapped him with an octopus.
The brutal slap took place off the coast of Kaikoura, on New Zealand’s South Island.
Kyle Mulinder was paddling with several others when the spirited seal appeared out of nowhere.
“We were just sitting out in the middle of the ocean and then this huge male seal appeared with an octopus and he was thrashing him about for ages,’ Mr Mulinder told Yahoo7 News.
The seal slipped back underwater before re-emerging.
His colleague, Taiyo Masuda, filmed the moment the seal slapped the octopus directly into Mr Mulinder’s face.
“I was like ‘mate, what just happened?’ ” he said.
“It was weird because it happened so fast but I could feel all the hard parts of the octopus on my face like ‘dum dum dum’.”
In the footage, Mr Mulinder can be heard screaming as his mates burst into laughter.