David Strike <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>snipit<

> (And for anyone who's never seen a weedy seadragon - or a Port Jackson
> shark - there's pics of them in the 'Sydney Diver-sion" piece.)

Yep, that's a common Sea Dragon travelling along with a Port Jackson.
Interesting that the PJ's first dorsal fin seems to be damaged. Hmmm,
did the Dragon take a piece out of it? ;-)

Apart from that I consider this "combination" to be a highly unlikely
occurrence in real life. Firstly, Sea Dragons are sloooooow, PJ's
considerably faster even if just ambling along. Secondly if they'd
placed the Sea Dragon _below_ the PJ I'd be more likely to accept it as
fact and thirdly I'd say that most adult PJ's are at least 600mm (about
2 ft) long, which makes the dragon, seems to me, somewhat overly large.
A software programme called Photoshop anyone? Or is that my cynicism
showing yet again?

To add insult to injury, (not Strike's, he's most unlikely to have
sourced the pic) kelp, that which is below the protagonists, is highly
unlikely to travel as steeply uphill as shown in the pic. Not around
here anyway not unless this was angled incorrectly/unknowingly by the
Graphics people.

Cheers,

Christian