MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: December 17, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand and Lesley. Lesley's update is part two of the dailies. ALSO I am including a link to the Kauai Seal Blog. There is a great post about the "Life and Times of R7AA". A great read about this critter and how well this team of people work together.
https://kauaiseals.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/monk-seal-monday-80-life-and-times-of-r7aa/?fbclid=IwAR0lA4JJfGHWFYVFItPN3yw4WemVQcbgSiTTJ0UiSQUTpgyXc1Md6Nv2rp8

Team Billand arrived at the outfall just before 7:30 this morning and spotted a beautiful seal, adult, nice coat, greenish with a ding on mid shoulders and another one on it's head. The tags shot confirmed RL12 Aukai.
There were multiple animals foraging in the outfall and out to sea. It made getting a decent shot with all the movements difficult.

Team Billand ID'd Ka'ale RH32 who was following Aukai around. They were together in the outfall and then suddenly they were way out of the Jetty. then right back in again. Good news no one stole any fish to the best of Team Billand's knowledge.

A third critter was in and out of the outfall. This critter has a nice voat, brilliant white face, and that bright white natural cue ball bleach was visible. They ID'd Kolohe RW22 and then he disappeared after a while.
There were two critters Team Billand was not able to ID. They were at the outfall until 10 am watching over all the action.

Just before noontime Team Billand spotted Ka'ale hauling out on the rocks. He almost looked like a harp seal with this wet dry look.
They rechecked on him once again later and he was still alone on the rocks.

Just before 4 pm they saw a male snoozing in between the rocks. They got a good look at the tag and were shocked to see R3CU. He was alone and very dry indicating he had been there for a while.

Aukai RL12