January 8, 2025 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:00 am to 1:17 pm and during that time it was mostly sunny with brisk winds.

A NOAA team of Mark, Christy and Hope kayaked to Rabbit Island with hopes of bleaching some seals.

When Marilyn first starting viewing from the pier she didn't see any seals, but then she spotted what appeared to be fresh monk seal tracks by the dunes in the 3BS area. Not long after NOAA team arrived,

Marilyn realized there was a seal up in the dunes. This seal turned out to be RT19 (Kala's 2024 pup) juvenile size, older coat, male belly and two red tags. The NOAA team confirmed his ID and unfortunately he was too aware of their presence for them to bleach him. He entered the water about 12:44 p, and hauled out again in the Middle Cliff area at about 1 pm.

The NOAA team found a seal in the RRB channel that Marilyn could not see from the pier. This seal was an untagged sub-adult male.

According to NOAA he had no real distinguishing marks. Christy tried to get an applied bleach on him. She managed to get a N15 on his dorsal and a N on one of his sides BUT he soon went into the water so the bleaches probably won't take.

Meanwhile weather on the west side was rainy and misty. Team R&B were out and about doing their usual searches and only found Miss Kale RH76.  She had just hauled out when they arrived.  She is

looking healthy and fat.  She found her resting spot by the "zen" garden and stayed there all day.  Seemed like the perfect spot on the miserable day.

Most of the beaches were closed off again due to high surf. In Makaha the surf came over the road.

Rabbit Island

RH76

west side weather