Alcohol drops at a lower temperature relative to the water they are placed on exhibit peculiar behavior. This series of pictures illustrates a drop that stays almost completely whole for a period of 3.0 seconds. This is in contrast to the room temperature drop dissolving on room temperature water that breaks up in 1 to 2 seconds at most.
These images exhibit the major characteristics of the surface tension driven “boomerang” like dissolution of a drop of 1-octanol: the crescent-like shape in the beginning, the continued elongation of the droplet, the eventual lack of stability and integrity, and then the lysis.