May 15, 2024 Wednesday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island for only 10 minutes due to the rain, it was between 2:10 and 2:21pm.

PO3 was alone and the only seal seen during that time. He is officially a weaner! He was snoozing between 3BS and SRI.

Team R&B first find of the day were three male seals. Needless to

day they were thrilled. First was R3CU alone up in high rocks. 

Next was R416 Makalii with the N10 applied bleach with R407 Kawika. They were hanging out together.

Stopping at the cliffs they were thrilled to find RL42 Leia in the company of big boy RN04 Kainoa.  RL42 seemed like see wanted to get away from RN04, but he kept an eye on her staying close. RL42 is looking quite plump.

Finally they spotted some turtles from afar, little did they realize they were in for quite a surprise. They headed over to the site and found there were eight turtles.  They didn't realize until they reviewed the photos when they got home, one of the turtles has a hook in its neck.

PO3 - weaner

R3CU

R416

R407

R416 & R407

RL42 

RL42 & RN04

RN04

Eight Honu

May 14, 2024 Tuesday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:50 to 3:10 and there were at least four maybe five seals seen during the at time.

On the rock flats Lanikai side of LPB was an Adult Female: adult size, light yellow female belly and two red tags. She moved around for a bit.

Initially PO3 was alone in the shallow water between Middle Cliff and 3BS. He hauled out alone and went into snooze mode. Marilyn assumed we had a weaner on day 43. PO3 is pudgy with the light silver male belly.

At 12:46 Marilyn noticed that a Juvenile Female was near RRB channel: larger juvenile size, ight yellow female belly, unsure about tags. She had left when Marilyn check back at 12:57/ Marilyn think she saw her offshore of PO3 and RF34 and offshore of LPB.

AT 12:56 pm Marilyn realized that an adult seal had hauled out to PO3 and she is reasonably sure it was mom Pua RF34. The moved closer to Mom, but soon thereafter at 1:04 pm PO3 headed into the water and after awhile, mom followed. They were in the water until about 2:30 pm in nearshore waters before PO3 hauled out between 3BS and SRI.  Mom then seemed to check in both directions and then swam away leaving PO3 alone on the beach. Marilyn reported PO3 as a weaned pup since there wasn't any nursing.

At 2:49 pm Marilyn saw an Unknown Adult haul out on the 3BS side of Middle Cliff. This may be RF34 who had departed from PO3's location. Although this UA seemed larger than the depleted RF34.

Team R&B decided to head out to Nimitz early even with all of the rain.  They found Kalani RN14 at his spot again. Today he was resting peacefully, no dogs, no humans were around during their observation.

At another west side location they dealt with the rain, then it stopped, then more rain. It wasn't torrential but enough to get the camera wet. Finally they got lucky and found three seals all males.

R416 Makalii R416 seems to have another cc wound. 

R617 Kimo also resting on the rocks.

The last male took forever to ID. In between the rain the seal moved due to a little crab. Thanks Mr. Crab for helping out and allowing Team R&B id RG32 by seeing the scar over his eye.

Rabbit Island

RN14

R416

R617

RG32

May 13, 2024 Monday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:35 to 2:30 and there were three seals seen during that time.

On the waterfront rock flats Lanikai of SRI was an Unknown Adult: adult size, two red tags, not sure of sex since Marilyn never saw a ventral view. Her guess would be this is the adult female she has seen recently but can't be sure. The UA later moved onto the beach and then up into the dunes with PO3 showing much interest.

Marilyn was a little concern when she didn't see Pua RF34 and PO3 for over an hour into her viewing session. Then finally she spotted RF34 Pua and PO3, they hauled out about 1:54 pm between 3BS and SRI and the pup had a nursing session. Pup is a porker and mom is hanging in there.

About 2:15 pm the UA moved up onto the beach and started heading up into the dunes. RF34 with her mouth open charged toward the UA. Then the UA moved up towards the dunes, PO3 started going toward the UA leaving mom behind. The UA was very aware of the pup but made no obvious move to him Ultimately the pup headed back to mom. One wonders how much longer Mom will stay with the pup.

Team R&B managed to make their way out on this crazy rainy day. There was a break in the rain and they found Miss Kala RH76 with Kai RM31. They were resting on the rocks about 20 feet apart.

Next stop at Kahe, they found Mr. Kalua RL20. He was alone today getting some rest.  The dolphins on the other hand were putting on show, they always look like their having fun.

When they arrived at Nimitz they didn't see RN14 Kalani on the reef because there were so many people out there. Team R&B walked out to the other area and saw a man and woman posing, taking pics of each other, and that's when they knew a seal must be there.  Sure enough they went over and found RN14 Kalani who was very alert and aware of the the couple.  The couple left and walked to the cabins. Team R&B confirmed RN14s ID just in time, because the rain was back and this time it was pouring. They called it a day.

Rabbit Island

RH76 & RM31

RH76

dolphins playing

RL20

RN14