8/28/2010 DB Dailies

At 0640 I found M&M, Sadie and EG at Rabbit Island. Ewa Girl's D#2 molt is a conservative 10%. When I got back to Makai Pier at 0840 I found that Kolohe and Duke had joined the case. Sam hauled out to join M&M at 1120. All remained there all day.

At 1319 I did a Blowhole check, and found Buster, once again, in the cove on the Sandy Beach side of the Lookout. I had not seen him foraging or snoozin' on my morning check.

In the space of 30 seconds, at 1645 I got calls from Dera, Schofield, and Dana, all with the same report from HPD about "a dying Monk Seal on the Blowhole side of Hanauma Bay". As often happens something got lost as things got passed along. I spoke with the cop who made the find and he had no clue where dispatch got the Hanauma Bay part. I assured him that this was a happy , healthy Buster, just snoozin' .

Marilyn did the Ka'ena Point trek today, and found Ka'ena,CeeCee and Kiko .

Posse members Jen and Jeff Christian also did the trek and added shots of a molting Kerby and BG to the cast at the end of the world.

Team Billand called at 0855 with the report of Rocky at Iroquois Point. She would depart at 1100.

At 1256 I got calls from both Dera, and posse member Stacey Stella, with the report of an animal at Lifeguard tower 2E, at Queen's in Waikiki. Lifeguards had already done the cordon, and Stacey was responding. The animal would depart at 1440 , swimming off to the west. I am very happy to report that the visitor was none other than KERMIT !!!!! He's home from his latest Kauai adventure. Stacey's shots showed all of Kermit's markers, and also the raw spot on his back, where his transmitter used to be. We are definitely going to be getting some "injured seal" calls out of that. Thank You Stacey !!!

Dana called to advise that ,once again Ua Malie spent the day on the Kahuku side of the point. Diane sent shots of a really gnarly looking spot that she had chosen for herself.

Sadie

Sam and M+M

Buster