January 31, 2025 Friday's Dailies

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

The storm has passed and it seems the seals were out on the shores to get some rest today. 

Team R&B arrived at their first stop and saw a seal high up by the grassy area. They studied the critter for quite awhile, and after an hour they saw the tag 3CU. They also noted the cc scar and bleach mark on lower area.  He had been snoozing and then started moving around as the dogs in the area kept barking. Team R&B chased the dogs away about five times. Honestly the seals just can't catch a break.

They were onsite for about 2 hours with R3CU when they saw another seal coming in. It was RH76 Kala, which caught R3CU's attention. He went from 0 to 60 in seconds heading for her. She barked at him, he settled and then he left. RH76 stayed and remained alone.

Next they spotted a seal from afar at another beach. The seal was high up on shore by the homeless camp. The seal was R3CX Nalu, who was alone resting on shore.

They made their way over to tracks twice. Early in the day they saw RH32 Kaale high up on shore snoozing. They didn't stay long and went to check other areas.

They returned later in the day and was upset to see RH32 Kaale was still there but surrounded by people. 

Team R&B headed over to another location and found RL12 Aukai resting in a zone that had been set up for her. They waited around for a bit hoping another seal would come, but none did so they left.

They headed back to check on RH76. She was still there but now in the company of a male. It took them about an hour when they saw what they needed. It was R617, no tags, male, scar on right flipper. Kala was sleeping soundly.

Still on site they spotted a smaller seal alone on the rocks. The glaring sun made it difficult to ID, but luck was on their side and they saw the

tag 29.... they were confused because this seal was too small to be G28.  Then they realized it was 3 year old RP28 Wakea, this is his first visit to the area. For sure this made their day! They haven't seen him since all the big surf started, its good to have him back.

R3CU

RH76 

RH76 & R3CU

R3CX

RH32

RL12

R617 & RL12

R617

RP28

January 30, 2025 Thursday's Dailies

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Yup they were out there today in all the wind and torrential down pours on the island.

There was a window of time where the weather allowed and they made the best of it.

They found RH76 Kala hidden high up in the rocks at pokai. She was alone tucked in nice and snug.

Also they spotted a few whales out in the stormy conditions, victory at sea.

They stopped in Makaha and got to see four turtles. There were two small ones with a larger one andthen they saw another that was hidden by the large turtle.  

They could see how the surf has eroded some of the beach. Looks like one of their favorite shady trees is about to be taken by the surf.  

Heavy rains started again so they headed home for safety.

RH76

whales

honu

beach

January 25, 2025 Wednesday's Dailies

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Team R&B had another slow day today. They started out watching the whales and listening to the chanters, which in itself is pretty awesome.

They got a call of a seal that had just hauled up at plains. Just as they were arriving they got another call that another seal was hauling up and with the first seal.  

The first seal on the beach was RL12 Aukai.  She was joined by

RL08, who came in from the east. The lifeguards were aware of his arrival and excited to see him coming in.

Next Team R&B headed over to pokai where they found a group of folks on the rocks. They were checking out a seal RL20 Kalua, and then the people left.  But another group of people were on the top area playing music and dancing. Team R&B decided to hang out for a bit.

Then all of a sudden the group of people were cheering and one of the woman with a dark blue shirt and colorful skirt made her way down to the seal.  She  straddled over the seal and slapped its side. RL20 leapt

up and barked at her, she went behind the seal showing no fear. RL20 kept leaping at her trying to bite.  RL20 flipped over and left the area.  

Team R&B explained to the group above who was taking a video that this was wrong to do and that the seal was a protected species. They just laughed,...... I can't imagine how frustrating this must have been.

whales

RL12 RL08

RL08

RL12

RL20

RL20 & Intruder