> -----Original Message----- > From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:05 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Nessie's back > > Sure, some Pinnipeds are fresh water. Seals are documented residents of > Loch > Ness.
Joe Nickle (a fellow of CSICOP) has a great book out documenting the more well-known lake monsters (there are a lot of them). Loch Ness, in particular, is pretty wide open, fauna-wise. A pretty common culprit in these sitings is North Atlantic Sturgeon - these are BIG fish - upwards of 12' long. There's at least one great story: a woman claimed to have not only spotted Nessie, but shot her as well - it was all over the news. Little reported was the find, two days later, of a sturgeon washed ashore with bullet wounds. Another likely candidate in a lot of the reports are sea otters. Otters grow up to five feet long and tend to travel in single file - their diving, swimming motions in line creates the classic "sea serpent" humping motion. Seals are common in the loch. Sharks and dolphins less so but are not unheard off. Even the odd small whale makes it in. I've gotten to the point as a skeptic with Nessie that I reached long ago with Bigfoot: show me a corpse or shut the hell up. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235948 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
