User blog comment:DancePowderer/Where Was He!?/@comment-89.143.183.162-20101028160931/@comment-1595565-20101028162213

By that logic there would have been an admiral there to try to capture just the Straw Hats. Yet, the commanding officer was a rear admiral. Besides, Dragon got to Loguetown just fine on his own, granted Luffy wasn't as big back then as he is now, but still Dragon did just fine. The dude has stealth. It might be weird if it suddenly started stormng at SA but that's beside the point. He wouldn't even need to make himself noticed, just stand on top of a mangrove with the silent coolness everyone has come to love about him, watch Luffy go underwater, then leave.