READERS are out and about on the trail of octopuses.

Colourful creations like those on this spread are dotted across the area.

Your job is to find them - then take a quick picture and send it to us to share in our papers and online!

Octopus Ahoy! is a community art event being run by KAT Marketing and Tendring Council, marking 400 years since the journey of the Mayflower from Harwich and 150 years since Clacton’s formation.

Gazette: MP 07 Jul 2021 SPREAD Octopus Ahoy 304982960

Team work - Paisley Young sent this picture of youngsters on the trail of octopuses in Clacton

Your Gazette is an official media partner of the ten-week spectacular.

Take a selfie of yourself with one of the octopuses (or get a photo of you with it), attach it HERE or email it to matt.plummer@newsquest.co.uk.

Please include full names for captions, give us the ages of any children in your pictures and tell us which octopus you are with.

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