↓

Old Salt Blog

a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea , hosted by nautical novelist Rick Spilman

Old Salt Blog
Home Menu ↓
Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About the Blog
  • Seastories
    • Newbooks
    • Reviews
    • Critiques
  • Lore of the Sea
    • Current
    • Ships
    • Language
    • Sea Songs
    • Rigging
  • History
  • Galleries
  • Old Salt Press
  • Contact
Home→Lore of the Sea→Current→Octopi in the Sky — Giant Octopus and Squid Kites

Post navigation

← Explosion, Death and Bandits on the Peruvian Amazon
John W. Griffith’s Headstone Unveiled in Linden Hill Cemetery →

Octopi in the Sky — Giant Octopus and Squid Kites

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Rick SpilmanJuly 23, 2016

Only slightly nautical but a lot of fun, nevertheless.

Giant Octopus Kite

Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea Tagged giant octopus, Kites, squid permalink

Post navigation

← Explosion, Death and Bandits on the Peruvian Amazon
John W. Griffith’s Headstone Unveiled in Linden Hill Cemetery →

Comments are closed.

Recent Comments

  • Peter Wright on Tragic Launching of HMS Albion, 1898, Caught on Film
  • Bruce Fox on “A Collision at Sea…” the Most Famous Thing Thucydides Never Said
  • Jean-Pierre Declemy on Alessandro Tosetti Sailing ULDB 65′ Aspra in Global Solo Challenge Attacked by Orcas in Strait of Gibraltar.
  • DAVID RYE on Massive Explosion at Iranian Port Kills at Least 40, Injures Over 1,000
  • Mike on Alessandro Tosetti Sailing ULDB 65′ Aspra in Global Solo Challenge Attacked by Orcas in Strait of Gibraltar.
  • Peter Wright on Alessandro Tosetti Sailing ULDB 65′ Aspra in Global Solo Challenge Attacked by Orcas in Strait of Gibraltar.
  • Jane Shaw Stroup on About the Blog
  • ws on Alessandro Tosetti Sailing ULDB 65′ Aspra in Global Solo Challenge Attacked by Orcas in Strait of Gibraltar.
  • D. Peter Boucher, Kt. SMOM, International Master Mariner (retd.) on World’s Largest Suction Sails Installed On Fruit Juice Tanker, MV Atlantic Orchard
  • Rick Spilman on World’s Largest Suction Sails Installed On Fruit Juice Tanker, MV Atlantic Orchard
  • Chris Roche on First Ever Confirmed Image of a Colossal Squid in the Deep Ocean Happens to be Really, Really Small
  • D. Peter Boucher, Kt. SMOM, International Master Mariner (retd.) on World’s Largest Suction Sails Installed On Fruit Juice Tanker, MV Atlantic Orchard
  • ws on World’s Largest Suction Sails Installed On Fruit Juice Tanker, MV Atlantic Orchard
  • ws on World’s Largest Suction Sails Installed On Fruit Juice Tanker, MV Atlantic Orchard
  • Jean-Pierre Declemy on Books About Racism & the Holocaust Purged From Naval Academy Library, Works by Hitler and White Supremacists Retained
Get new posts by email:

Featured Books

Evening Gray Morning Red
by Rick Spilman


The Shanytman
by Rick Spilman

Hell Around the Horn
by Rick Spilman

Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator by Joan Druett
Barbados Bound
by Linda Collison


Cut and Run by Alaric Bond

The Prodigal by S. K. Keogh

A Tainted Dawn: The Great War (1792-1815) Book I by B. N. Peacock
True Colours by Alaric Bond

A Battle Won by S. Thomas Russell

His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond
Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss
My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong
The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery
James Nelson's
George Washington's Secret Navy

Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes
Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett
The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)
The Jackass Frigate by
Alaric Bond

Steady As She Goes
by John Molloy

Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
website security
© 2025 - Old Salt Blog Proudly powered by WordPress  Weaver II by WP Weaver
↑