DB Post Saturday 8/22/2009

At 0648 Ewa Girl was waiting for me , up in the Morning Glory, left of 1BS on Rabbit Island. At 0709 Duke, followed closely by Buster, hauled out just below Ewa Girl's location. Duke would return to the water, but Buster remained with Ewa Girl for most of the day.

From 0842 until 0918 I had two bag guy on Rabbit Island . They had snorkeled to the island. During their stay they encountered one or both of the weaners in the water and took photos from land. They would have two interact with Ewa Girl and Buster at the left end. On the first they took photos of each other with the animals. The animals alerted but did not depart. After that they stomped around up in the "bird area" in the grass, and then returned to Ewa Girl and Buster. On this photo incident both animals entered the water.

Multiple attempts to call DOCARE dispatch got me only the dreaded recording saying that the office was closed, and to leave a message, followed immediately by yet another recording saying that the mailbox was full, and no messages were being excepted. That was a whole new low in my experience in dealing with DOCARE.

It was just plain luck that at 0935 , on a totally unrelated matter, DOCARE Officer John Silberstein happened to called me from the Makai Pier gate. He busted to two when they got back to the pier.

Once things calmed down and I got back to paying attention to Rabbit Island, I found the weaners, Mikala and Buster playing together in Mikala's favorite tide pool , right of 3BS. Mikala would later haul out the that location , while Duke would haul out at the far right end of the beach.

On a pan at 1348 I found Kolohe being chased up onto the beach at the left end of the island, by M38 . There was some initial nuzzling and interaction, but Kolohe managed to slowly but surely move off from M38, and he did not follow.

The whole cast was in snooze mode when I departe the pier at 1500.