December 13, 2025 Saturday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by posse pal Kathy O and Team R&B💕

I received an email from Kathy this morning informing me the unknown male was still on site. Today he moved by the cove where as last evening he was closer to an area where there was music, food and drinks. Thankfully people were respectful. Kathy was out there today for a while. 

Hearing this news I informed Team R&B to see if at some point in their travels they could check in and see if they could make an ID.

Team R&B started their day watching multiple seals foraging at the outfall area again.  The waves were "victory at sea" rough and high! It was difficult to keep track of the seals and to make an ID.

They know one of them was RH48 Lei Ola, and RH32 Kaale was also out there foraging.  They continued to watch and spent a long time trying to figure out who was who. They also were able to ID RL08.

The highlight of their day and what brings them much joy was watching the whales. The whales were putting on quite a show today. They got some great shots of them jumping out of the water, what is missing is hearing all the people cheering.

Team R&B did make their way out to Iroquois to check out the mystery adult male seal.

They studied the animal and there was a volunteer on site. The seal has no tags, old looking, scar over his heart and male. Initially they thought maybe RN14 but they didn't see the things they need to see to confirm. 

Then they thought RK36 who is an older male and he does pop up in the area every once in a while. RK36 doesn't have tags. Either way this old mystery male appears to be ready to molt!

RL08

RH32

RH48

WHALES

U/M ??? RK36