David Strike wrote:

> "It is estimated that between half and a third of all the seahorses in the
> world are found in Australia."

Interesting statistic.  We have seahorses but nothing, as far as I know, to
compare with your weedy seadragon, a fascinating creature to be sure.

S. Florida has, or used to have, a pretty substantial population of
seahorses.  Divers didn't see them often primarily because they tend to stay
in the shallow grass flats and in wads of free floating seaweed that
collects along our coastline.  I say "used to have" because the population
of S. Florida is not so slowly, but very surely, polluting our near shore
waters.  I don't know how much of an impact this has had on the seahorse
population.

I used to think that seahorses were a tropical to subtropical creature.  I
learned otherwise a couple of years ago when a discussion of sightings of
quantities of them were reported during dives in the northeastern U.S.
Surprised me.

Lee