DB Post Friday 3/6/2009

It was yet another cold, windy and off & on wet day. A perfect day for a Monk Seal to lay around and do absolutely nothing, and therein lies the story of my day. Right off the bat I found what would turn out to be RIP up in the Morning Glory at 3BS on Rabbit Island, and his little brother Mojo spent the day on the beach front incline at the far left end of the island. Mojo stay right there all day. RIP moved down to the the beach front at mid day and remained there all day.
I'd done many, many routine pans of the entire beach front through the day, but on one of those routine pans, I suddenly saw a little head peeking out from behind a grass clump, 90 ft. of 3BS, well up above the beach. He never did move down, but after hours of diligent waiting, he finally showed enough to allow me to see the epoxy on his back (ex-transmitter location) and I finally confirmed that it was Kolohe.
Team Billand had Whale duties today, so they only reported 2AW at Tracks (Kahe Power Plant), and a swimming head off shore of the Nimitz Beach reef, which in all probability was Kermit, but of course that ID is a scientific no-no. Aloha , DB

2AW

Kermit