August 11, 2023 Friday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by new posse pal Joan, Marilyn and Team R&B💕

New posse pal Joan sent in some photos of a seal that hauled out this morning at Nimitz near the jetty. Team R&B asked her to send the pictures into the blog and its greatly appreciated. This seal is reported as an Unknown Adult, since it didn't show any clues as to who it might be. If anyone has any ideas please feel free to share.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:20 to 2:50 and there were three seals on island today. 

On LPB was an Unknown Adult, although Marilyn thinks its one of the Adult Females from yesterday. The UA was adult size, newer coat, unsure about sex or tags.

At SRI again was RP24 Mohala: juvenile size, light female belly, two red tags and nb on the tip of her LFF. She appears to have completed her molt.

On RRB was an Adult Female: adult size, older coat, tannish gold female belly and two red tags.

ALSO today is RK96 Kaiwi's 12th birthday. Although we don't always mark birthdays these days, Kaiwi is special to Marilyn and many of us.

Once again Team R&B went to check on the two ladies at the bay. There was Kala RH76 and Leina RL70 on a sand patch. They were just about to head into they're water spots. RL70 is now 70% done with her molt.

Next they made a quick stop at another west side location. They found one seal on lower rocks and ID'd RM31 Kai.  The tide was high and waves were covering the entire area.

Team R&B went back to recheck on Kala and Leina, but now there were three seals together near the sand patch. To their surprise was RL20 Kalua who joined the two ladies. He is looking quite green and was laying on his side.

Unknown adult @nimitz

Rabbit Island

RH76

RL70

RM31

RL20

July 13, 2023 Thursday

There aren't any updates today.  

Marilyn did not make it to the pier.

Team R&B celebrated Robert's 77th birthday today. Bless him and lets hope there are many more!

06/15/2022 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Also thanks to Dana for reminding me that today is Kawena RH36 Birthday!  She is six years old and it Kaiwi's first pup and the infamous Irma's grandchild.

Team R&B arrived at a west side location and found the cutest two seals side by side. There was Lei Ola RH48 next to RP30 Puka snoozing together peacefully.

That didn't last for long, Lei Ola perked up and looked down and out of nowhere popped RN14 Kalani.

He chased Lei Ola over the rocks and barked at little Puka. Lei Ola "ran" galumphed really really fast on the rocks to get away. But Kalani being a jerk persisted and went after her. Finally Puka RP30 went to high rocks and away from the drama.  Lei Ola made it over and Kalani settled down by her.

Next from a far they noticed the seal coming up. There were so many tourist that Team R&B hesitated to head over to check, so they waited patiently.

The dolphins arrived and the tourist went nuts, yelling and running over to get in the water to swim with them. This was the break Team R&B needed. There in the shallows was KG54 Huakai. She is sleek and very smooth and clean. They saw her tags, small gill like scars on her face and the half CC scar on her butt area.

A friend of theirs arrived to get a look at her, Team R&B told her what they knew of KG54. She was impressed (as many of us are) with how far this female traveled to get to Oahu.

Team R&B returned to where Lei Ola, Kalani and Puka had been. Kalani RN14 was in the shallows and he left. RP30 Puka was not there anymore. Lei Ola RH48 was still there and alone. AND now RL70 was there on water front rocks.

At another location from afar they saw a fisher next to a seal. So they did the long hot walk to the site and found RN04 Kainoa.  They were happy to make the ID!

Marilyn had a very long and busy day, but she managed to view Rabbit Island from 2:30 - 3:30 and there were five seals during observation. All five seals were on LPB.

Furthest toward the rock flats on the Lanikai side of LPB was MO7 and PO7. At one point PO7 headed on its own for the water and got washed a few times, then headed back for Mom. A short time later PO7 headed for MO6 & PO6. As he got closer to MO6, Momma MO7 barked and the kid returned to momma.

About 50 feet in the 1BS direction was MO6&PO6. PO6 spent much of its time nursing behind MO6 during the time Marilyn was there.

A short distance further was an Adult Male - adult size, dark male belly and two red tags.

Marilyn saw two guys on Rabbit Island in the RRB area and beyond. While she was observing them, MO7 and PO7 moved over between MO6 and PO6 and the AM. Then PO7 moved over behind MO6 and finally back to Mom MO7.

This is going to get interesting but thankfully the pups are just a day or two apart, so if there is a switch they should continue to get the nourishment they need.

Happy 6th Birthday Kawena RH36 - pic 6/15/16 with momma Kaiwi

RH48 and RP30

RN14 going after RH48

KG54

RL70

Kalani

RN04 Kainoa

Rabbit Island - Two Moms - Two Pups & an Adult Male

08/31/2021 Tuesday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Lesley, Melody and Team R&B💕.  Lesley's Ka'ena update is part two of the dailies.   ALSO in yesterday's news I forgot to wish Da Benny a Happy 19th Birthday! 

Melody sent video from yesterdays' excited with Aukai, Kawika and Lefty. Fun stuff to watch!

Team R&B spent lots of time looking for seals everywhere today and only found critters at tracks. Along with the critters were the tourist. Some were close to the seals taking their pictures. Another guy was walking around passing out cards to tourist for what they don't know.  

Team R&B's first find was RN14 Kalani and RL12 Aukai. They were on shore enjoying their siesta together just fine.  Seems Aukai been getting lots of male visitors lately.

When they returned to tracks they found one more seal R3CX Nalu.  When one women crawled up to Nalu, while boyfriend was taking pictures, Team RB went over to tell the scoop.  Of course they were not aware, they knew nothing, but now they do. They were visiting from Argentina.

Kalani

Aukai

RL12 and RN14

R3CX Nalu

Tourist unaware

Video of R407-RG28-RL12