October 30, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand and Lesley.  Lesley's updates from today is posted in part two and updates from the yesterday are posted in part three. ( sorry I missed her email last night),

Team Billand was at the outfall at 6:30 am. While there they spotted two seals in the outfall, Kekoa Alii RK72, and RH32 Ka'ale.  Kekoa kept to himself, but good ole' butt-head back to his bad habits and stole some fish.
At one point Ka'ale  was playing with some junk in the water, a big stick of some kind and then a plastic bottle. 
Team Billand left at 8 am and both seals were still foraging. Team Billand was also got to see their first whale of the season today. 

Just before 11 am Team Billand was checking out plains and there was the beautiful Pohaku RO28, resting at the waters edge, getting splashed by the incoming tide.  There was a zone already in place.
They could see all her markers, cookie scars on her right side, scars on her face and that special natural bleach on her hind flipper.  She seemed fine resting comfortably.

And last but not least just before 1:oo they found Big Boy Ka'ale had hauled out. He was on the rocks out cold and alone. I guess all that foraging wore him out.

Ka'ale with a stick and trash

 plastic bottles

 Kekoa Alii  RK72

Pohaku R028

 Ka'ale hauled out on the rocks

Team Billand's first whale for 2019