Meet the Tree Octopuses

Meet the Team

Meet the Octopuses

Chester

Chester The Grinning Octopus - loves to play games and tell riddles. Never ask them for directions though, you might find yourself every which way except the way you want to go!

Sparky the Wise

Sparky found and egg and wisely kept and nurtured it until a baby dragon hatched. That dragon is now a fierce protector of Soundview Day Camp, and also protects the tree octopuses!

Salty

Salty the Pirate Octopus Their Story is one filled with adventure and epic shenanigan's! Salty can glide through the air like a flying squirrel! Find out more when you come to camp and be the first to find him in the trees!

Favorite Camp Song: The Pirate Song

Pepper

Pepper the Orienteering Octopus loves maps and navigation! When the Ship that set sail from the Octopus Tree shipwrecked at Soundview Day Camp, Pepper was first in line to teach the Girl Scouts about Navigating the land with maps and compasses!

Polly

Polly the Story Telling Octopus is a keeper of the Tree Octopuses' History! Her favorite Story is about the ship that set sail from the Octopus Tree! She enjoys writting about the adventures of Salty The Pirate Tree Octopus and the orienteering escapes of Pepper! You might even hear tales of goblins, mermaids and fairies!

Holly

Holly the Christmas Octopus is the sweetest octopus you will ever meet! She even saved Santa's sleigh once! On Christmas Eve one year, Holly was down on the beach during a super low tide searching for a sea star to be be the jewel on the top of her Christmas tree, when all of a sudden, Santa's Sleigh came crashing out of trees and into sand! All of the reindeer were missing and poor Santa was covered in sand from head to foot. Even worse, seaweed had managed to completely entangle all of the reindeer's harnesses! Holly offered her nimble tentacles to untangle the seaweed mess! Santa explained that the sea-reindeer (much larger cousins to the seahorse) had played a practical joke on Santa's reindeer and had all gotten soaked in the sea. Just then, Santa's reindeer climbed out of the sea looking embarrassed. Santa thanked Holly for fixing his sleigh and gave her a special present. A seedling Octopus Tree. He showed her a magic grove at Saltwater State park to plant it in so that it could flourish.

Ursa

Ursa the Octopus is a young octopus that is forever snoring! They snore when they're sleeping, when they're climbing, even when they are eating! They are so loud that their fellow Octopodes gave them the name Ursa, because they were once mistaken for a bear! Ursa is forever looking for a cure for their snoring and has heard that a tea made from the bark of the Octopus Tree can cure them. They just have to find the tree!

Kiki

Kiki The Only Princess Octopus is descended from a long line of Octopodes that have called Saltwater State Park their home. She got her title of "Princess" When saved the park (and all of her fellow tree octopuses) from burning down. A visitor had not put out their camp fire completely. She was passing by when she heard a little mouse crying for help! He had been trapped by the spreading campfire. Kiki knew right where to find a bucket and scooped up some water and put out the campfire. Since then, her fellow forest dwellers called her a true princess. Remember! Always make sure your campfire is COMPLETELY out before walking away!

Sequim

Sequim, pronounced "Squim" is a 3 year old male Tree Octopus. Sequim's favorite past time is hunting, and his favorite thing to hunt is snails. He loved hunting and eating snails so much as a hatchling that his adopted father named him Sequim, which in the S’Klallam language means “a place to hunt.” He made his way to Saltwater State Park by following the fastest snail that he had ever encountered. It could zip through the woods faster than Sequim could swing through the trees. He followed it all the way to Saltwater State Park. He lost the snail and he still hunts it to this day. He's heard rumors that Zip the Snail (Sequim learned the snail's name from the Rangers) lives at the Octopus Tree, which he has yet to find.

Izzy

Issaquah or "Izzy" is an eight year old female Tree Octopus that has raised several orphaned hatchlings in Saltwater State Park. She loves bird watching and listening to all the different sounds that birds can make. Even as a hatchling, Izzy loved birds and was drawn to them, that's how she got her name, “Issaquah" is an anglicized word for a local Native American name, meaning “the sound of birds”.

These days, she mostly hangs out where ever the birds are. She has heard that a special kind of bird calls the Octopus Tree home, but no one has been able to find the tree.

Olympia

Olympia The PNW Tree Octopus is 3 year old female that was named after the State Capitol of Washington. She found her way to Saltwater State Park last year after hitching a ride on an RV that had been camping near her home. Rangers found her and patched her up, then released her into the park to build a new home. She loves it here and hopes to raise hatchlings here some day. She also enjoys long slithers along the beach and finding the tallest trees in the park.

She's heard a rumor of an Octopus Tree that she has yet to find. Keep a look out this tree along your trail! If you find it, go back to the Spider Station and tell Olympia where it is.

Stay tuned for more bios on the incredible super heroes that make camp happen!

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