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VICTORIA — Photos of a Pacific octopus grabbing a seagull at Victoria’s Ogden Point breakwater have gone viral on the Internet, and the woman who took the images was on the run Tuesday doing media interviews.

Ginger Morneau of Langford, a suburb of Victoria, was out on the breakwater on March 24 with her husband, Ken, and her brother, Lou Barker, when something at the water’s edge caught her eye.

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She’s an amateur photographer and on that day, she had her camera.

Caught on camera: A seagull is snatched and engulfed by a giant Pacific octopus that quickly dropped out of sight.Credit:Supplied photo by Ginger Morneau (May 2012)

“It was a stunning moment, to be sure,” Morneau said. “We were strolling along and talking. I saw the bird in the water and it looked like he was pecking at something underwater.”

Then she realized the bird had not lifted its head out of the water.

“That was the odd part. That’s what made us step forward … and we realized there was an octopus.”