During a beautiful kayak outing at Isla Espiritu Santo a guest found this Humboldt squid (Class Cephalopoda) swimming in the shallows below the mangrove trees. Sadly, since this is not the normal habitat for this giant creature, I believe she was close to expiring as it repeatedly bumped into the mangrove roots after several efforts were made to turn the animal around towards the open sea. This species of squid (Dosidicus gigas) is an epipelagic animal and to see it alive in the shallows was a rare treat. Many of the kayakers gathered around to view her as she propelled herself using a jet stream of water from her powerful siphon and flashed shimmery colors across its deep crimson flesh. The inset photo is of her eye underwater as she swam past me. The cephalopod eye is the most advanced eye of the marine invertebrates; I was thrilled that I could share the film of that animal looking at me with that wonderful eye.