Bart Bear's Blog

For most of our roadtrip we followed the coast between Melbourne and Adelaide. It was not good weather for swimming. It rained a bit, the sky was usually overcast and the ocean was very rough, so not even Dad was keen to go snorkelling. If it had been good weather the oldies would have been looking for this little critter and his relatives. This is a weedy sea dragon and it lives in the ocean water over 2m deep all along the coast we travelled . They are hard to see because they live in areas of rock and kelp and they look just like the background. They are different to sea horses because the dad doesn't have a pouch to carry the young ones around. Instead he sticks the eggs under his tail until they hatch. I'm not keen on swimming in rough water, so I saw this guy in the safety and comfort of Melbourne aquarium.

Labels: fish, Great Ocean Road, Melbourne, Victoria