DB Post Sunday 2/22/2009

Rabbit Island occupied very little of my day today, but I did manage to check it in the afternoon. The RI cast was RIP, Sadie and R301, all at the left end of the island.

The bulk of the day was spent with Rocky, who decided that hauling out at Hilton Hawaiian Village pier was a good idea. Actually, she was on the Fort Derussy side of the Hilton pier walkway. According to witnesses she hauled out between 0600 and 0630. I got the call from David Schofield at 0820, and the cordon was up by 0852. The Fort Derussy lifeguards and the staff of Atlantis Submarine Tours were of great help in dealing with the hordes. Sub tour operations continued with the staff escorting the tourists past Rocky and not allowing anyone stop on the walkway. The Johnsons, the Maldonados,along with Barbara and Don are all to be commended for performing at their usual above and beyond levels. We got back to Rocky's site at 1700, and Rocky FINALLY decided to depart at 2001. We picked up the stuff and called it a day at 2030.

My wife and I had just departed the Hilton site at 1240 when Tracy called with the report of an animal at Kewalo Basin at the John Dominus restaurant. When we arrived at 1308 we found Rosie (RO30) tucked onto Rosie sized rocks directly below the upper dining room of the restaurant. She was basically inaccessible, so I got ID shots and departed. Nobody was going to get to her. John Dominus personnel called to advise that Rosie departed at 1900.

Team Billand reported Kermit at the Wind Sock, Kalaeloa Beach, and Irma along with M&M at Campbell Industrial Park.

DB Post Friday 1/16/2009

The much anticipated and hyped OMG!!!!!! Front !!! came and went with a THUD in my world. It was certainly not worth bringing the islands government and school systems to a halt for. It rained alittle . In the wonderful world of Monk Seals, the critters had the perfect day. Cool and wet, and hardly any of those "leggers" on the beach to bother them.

I found M38 at the right end of the beach at Rabbit Island at 0915. He had the place all to himself for most of the day. I had to stop observations when RI disappear in the mists around noon, but did and afternoon check and during a brief episode of visibility at 1343 I found that RIP had joined M38. When the island disappeared again at 1420, I called it a day.

Colleen Heyer called around 1245 to excitedly tell me that when she stepped out into her backyard at Diamond Head, she found Rocky at the mouth of the culvert that runs along side her house. Rocky knows the location well, having done a few days of her last year's molt in Colleen's Culvert.

Team Billand checked in from the SW quadrant with two reports. First they reported Kermit at Oneula Beach Park (Ewa Beach), at 1310, and then at 1348 called in again with the report of Irma , also in Ewa Beach, near Oneula Place.

I recieved late, email word from Tracy that RO30 (Rosie), was at MCBH today. Aloha, DB

Irma

Irma

Kermit

Kermit

Rocky

Rocky

DB Post Thursday November 13th

I found Ewa Girl for the 3rd consecutive day at her Hanauma Bay hangout, and she was the sum total of the action in the SE quadrant.
Fortunately, Team Billand provided all the excitement by reporting Irma and Kermit at White Plains. Irma's molt continues, but I have no photos at this writing.
Speaking of photos, I did receive an addition photo of Rose (RO30) from Laura, taken on 11-8-08.
As I was typing , Diamond Head posse person , Colleen called to say that Rocky is cruisin' on the beach, near her house.

Rosie is Everywhere!!

Rosie (RO30)@MCBH, 11-8-08
I got a call from Laura Nakanelua the other day, reporting that she and her husband Kelsey had seen an animal behind their cottage on the Marine Base in Kanehoe. I got their shots this morning, and though I was hoping for Kolohe, I got a equally pleasant surprise to see that it was in fact Rosie (RO30) that was parked behind their cottage , on Saturday, 11-8-08. If you enlarge the attached photo enough, you can clearly see her O31 tag.

For those of you who are not already aware of Rosie, she is a little 2 1/2 year old female from Kalaupapa , Molokai, that his been visiting Oahu since 5-11-08, and has been seen literally all around Oahu, and has even done 2 Kauai trips, plus returns to Molokai. For a little girl she definitely gets around