tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058923250535210552012-02-16T06:02:29.832-08:00Unidentified Marine Creature, even The Australian Museum can't tell me what it is!Louweaselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876070054379233071noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-705892325053521055.post-61767428382891225412006-11-10T18:53:00.000-08:002011-01-17T20:16:08.378-08:002011-01-17T20:16:08.378-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">We decided to go fishing,<br />and try out our recently acquired boat.<br />My husband, son and I were fishing at<br />Ballina NSW, on the Richmond River.<br />It was around the change of tide,<br />I had my rod in the rod holder,<br />when suddenly the line took off,<br />the rod bent over and I nearly fell over<br />trying to get to it before the rod went in!.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7327/86168496710634/1600/B0001201.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7327/86168496710634/320/B0001201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">I grabbed the rod, hooked it up and started<br />to reel her in!<br />About half an hour later,<br /> after pulling the boat around a bit,<br />I finally got whatever it was up to<br />the surface and realised that it had<br /> gotten caught up in our anchor rope,<br />Damn!.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My husband grabbed the camera<br />and started taking pictures of what I caught,<br />we haven't seen anything like it before!.<br />At first we thought it was some kind of Ray,<br />but it had no tail,<br /> instead it had what looked like the front<br />of a Manter Ray?<br />and the head was different to a Ray.<br />Unfortunately we didn't get it in the boat<br /> to have a really good look at it,<br /> and had to cut the line because of the<br />Anchor rope.<br /><br />Check out the pictures and see if you know what it is?<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7327/86168496710634/1600/B0001205.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7327/86168496710634/400/B0001205.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Here is an enlargement of the picture above.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7327/86168496710634/1600/B0001205crop.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7327/86168496710634/400/B0001205crop.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">WEIRD FISH??!!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/705892325053521055-6176742838289122541?l=weirdfish-louweasel.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NQSqNNUc5S2zJCQJPDKaz2Ktm4k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NQSqNNUc5S2zJCQJPDKaz2Ktm4k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NQSqNNUc5S2zJCQJPDKaz2Ktm4k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NQSqNNUc5S2zJCQJPDKaz2Ktm4k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WhatIsThisStrangeFish/~4/-Nv1TJCsBIY" height="1" width="1"/>Louweaselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876070054379233071noreply@blogger.com6http://weirdfish-louweasel.blogspot.com/2006/11/unidentified-marine-creature.html