DB Post Tuesday 4/21/2009

On my first look at Rabbit Island at 0702 I found RIP and M&M together at the left end of the beach, and Buster at the right end. Buster would depart at 1140 and I did not see him again. RIP and M&M would remain and were joined at 1417 by R301. His arrival was barely acknowledged, except for an over the back glance by M&M. .

I found Irma at "Irma's Grotto", at the end of the Kokee Flats at Portlock. She was, once again , cruisin' in her tide pool, occasionally lifting a nostril just enough to breathe.

Though Team Billand had no animals in the SWQ for the 5th straight day, they nevertheless earned their Manapua today, bY finding and reporting an illegal gill net at "Kermit's Reef" , just to the right of the Nimitz Beach jetty. DOCARE Officer Errol Kane responded and removed the net. It was laid across the inlet that Kermit uses regularly to get up on the reef. That was a nightmare waiting to happen. Aloha, DB

M&M, RIP

Buster

M&M, RIP, R301

Irma

DOCARE to the rescue.