01/31/2022 Monday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by posse pal Amy and Team R&B💕.  I did get an email from Marilyn that she did checked Rabbit Island and there were no seals. 

Also as a side note I am including an U/U that was seen by Team R&B yesterday when they got back from their Ka'ena West walk.  They couldn't make a positive ID although they suspect it is R330 Squinty.

In todays news Team R&B stopped at a west side location and found little RP84 Pe'ekai at seal inlet snoozing. Later he was playing in the pond with a stick.   RW02 PvKauai was on lower rocks and Leina RL70 resting in the shallows.

At another locations they spotted two seals resting side by side. On the rocks were R3CX Nalu and

RL20 Kalua.  To the left lay their fat girl RH76 Kala.  There was no interaction between her and the boys.

Team R&B got word of a seal on shore so they left to check it out. When they arrived they saw a female seal who is looking hapai. They didn't see any tags, but noted she has a cookie scar on her under belly near teats. She has two large cookie scars one on the right side and another further down on her side. Possibly a scar on lower lip, that could have been from a hook. On her upper chest she has a big scar. Two line scars on the top of her head.

At another beach on the west side they found Puka RP30 again. He was alone snoozing on the rocks. They finally got a look at his wound, which is a cookie wound healing nicely.

They looked around again and spotted a slither of a seal. They walked out to see and got the ID. It was RL42, looking plump.  This was not the same seal as yesterday.

Posse pal Amy went out today to the spot where there has been a lot of activity lately. Today one seal arrived around 11 am.  She stayed with the seal and did some outreach on the beach providing the curious onlookers with monk seal basics. The seal left about 5 pm heading south.  She wasn't able to ID this critter. Looks like an unknown male, but then again ??

UU from Sunday 

Pe'eka RP84

RW02 PvKauai

RL70 Leina

R3CX

RL20

RH76

Unknown Female 

RP30 Puka

RL42

Amy's U/U from today

01/30/2022 Sunday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn, Lesley and Team R&B💕.  Lesley's weekly Ka'ena update is part two of the dailies.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11 am to 1 pm and there was only one critter on island today.

For the first half hour there were no seals seen on the island. Then about 11:30 a seal hauled out on Lanikai side of the 1BS. She would have thought this seal to be a juvenile to subadult size, however she thinks this seal had two gray tags. The two gray tags would be KG54 Huaka'i, making this the our Kure Atoll visitor. The seal had a lighter female belly and possible upper chest scar.  

Team R&B checked out one of the beaches and initially there were no seals. They did collect the signs

that had been left out. At 8:23 they saw a seal swim pass but it didn't land.

Thirty minutes later they watched Kekoa Alii RK72 haul out and goes over to the rocks. He keeps looking back at the water. They set up signs but no ropes because of the high tide.

One hour later a second seal comes in. Here comes RH32 Kaale, he greets Kekoa and both settle and snooze.

They got word another seal landed at another cove. They wondered if this could have been the seal swimming by earlier. There on shore was RL12 Aukai looking large and gorgeous. There were signs up with rope. Team R&B noticed a butterfly land by her, sweet!

They spoke with some of the folks on the beach they often see when Aukai arrived. They said it was about 8:40. They showed them a photo from when she first arrived.

Team R&B headed over to another west side location. The first seal seen was about to slide into the waterhole. There was RL70 Leina a little difficult to see as she was rolling her way into the waterhole.

The second seal up on the rocks was RW02 PvKauai. He was a lone and sound a sleep.

They went over to the other side and saw a seal foraging, it looked like little RP84.

When they returned back to the left side R3CU had hauled out and landed by RW02.

RP84 Pe'ekai was seen coming into the shallows, then going up to RW02. He looked up to RW02 as if to ask if it was okay to come up.  R3CU looks over to the little guy and doesn't react, so Pe'ekai hauled up in between the boys. Leina was still in the pond.

They made one more stop before calling it a day and they were happy they did. There they spotted a little tan seal, with tags, snoozing alone on the rocks. There were two folks fishing close by, but the seal was fine. They ID'd RP30 Puka, just chilling on his side. They could see a small mark on his right lower side, like a cookie wound in the process of healing.

Rabbit Island possibly KG54

seal passing by

Kekoa Alii 

Kaale

Aukai

RL70

RW02

R3CU

RP84

RP84 with RW02, R3CU and RL70

RP30