DB Post Tuesday October 28th

Buster,R301&M38@Rabbit Island, 10-28-08
At 0912 , R301 hauled out the point at the left end. He was the animal that was run off by the surfer, but he hauled out again just a few minutes later down at the 3rd Blue Sign (3BS) where he spent the rest of the day.

To my surprise, M38 hauled out to join R301 at 1035. There was immediate posturing and vocalizing and after only a minute , M38 was back in the water. He hauled out again a few minutes later at the far right end of the beach. The rising tide got him off that perch in the afternoon, and he hauled out again at the left end at 1BS, where he spent the rest of the day.

Though science will never allow such and assumption, my Monachus gene tells me that M38 was very probably yesterday's unknown swimmer. (ain't hindsight great!).

The Billand were skunked in the SW quadrant today. There were no other calls from posse or pros. Aloha, DB