I received an email from Kathy today noting that R427 may have returned to Iroquois Point. It looks like he still has some old fur on his flippers, leftover from his molting last week. Thankfully he is in a different location further away from the crowds.
Team R&B first stop at pokai they were surprised to find RG28 Lefty alone in the zen area. Which made they wonder where was Kala?
They did see R3CX Nalu foraging. He was alone as usual filling his belly. At one point they thought there was another seal but they didn't see any signs of it again.
Checking out Kahe they spotted a seal with applied bleach N32. Turns out it is RG32, on the other side of his body it looked like there might be another bleach N80. They confirmed RG32 by seeing his tags.
Out by the outfall area there was a party going on with so many seal out there. Team R&B took over 450 photos they were able to ID only a couple of the seals. There was RH48 Lei Ola, and RL08. Aukai RL12 was seen and she did her best to stay away from all the insanity. They also ID'd RP28 Wakea by his start burst scar. They saw an Unknown Female fighting with another seal. Female has green snout with red tags. One of their photos shows four seals chasing each other.
Going back to Kahe there was a big male seal on the rocks. It was partially in a small pond, and they were able to big boy RH32 Kaale.
Then they saw a seal foraging at the pavilion where a lot of the divers go out. The seal had a clean coat, and they believe it was RM31 Kai.He was going after something in the shallows. He was blowing bubble by the rocks then rose to the surface. The snorkelers were close by watching him RM31 are whatever it was and left the area and header towards the outfall.
Lastly Team R&B watched from afar as a young seal arrived at electric beach trying to haul out. There were lots of tourist with kids and they got too close to the seal. The seal barked at a little boy. One would think they would back off. One lady was brace enough to told all the people to move back and give the seal some space.
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