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Monday, August 9, 2021

08/09/2021 Monday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Tammy, Melody and Team R&B💕.

Tammy hiked Ka'ena Point solo today. She first found Luana RN58, newly molted. She was easy to spot like a bright shining light. Next was Ka'ena RO40 in one of his favorite haul out spots. He is looking good for an older dude. Then there was RW02 PvKauai blocking the entry so no other seals could haul out. Smart buggah! Lastly Tammy found RL98 Lina at the end of her hike. As a side note she saw her first Kolea at the point.

Team R&B started at the bay and there was the little green seal RL20 Kalua stealing fish at the jetty. Also on the rocks was Nalu R3CX enjoying a snooze. On a recheck later in the day Nalu was gone.

At another west side location they found good ole Benny RE74 on the rocks along with RH76 Kala. At seal inlet was RG28 Lefty snoozing alone. Then suddenly RN14 Kalani hauled up on left upper rocks. A regular seal party.

From a distance they saw a seal on shore and headed over to the site to find the lovely RL12 Aukai on shore alone. Team R&B had left the site but kept their eye on the shoreline from afar. They saw that some fishermen had arrived and were really close to Aukai, not to mention a family that arrived and settled on the other side of her. They called the hotline to report.

Team R&B headed over to another location and when they got to the area they spotted a green seal hauling up on the rocks. It was RL42 Leia, her tags were visible and cookie scar on side. Team R&B left the site because there were people coming to the area.

Team R&B went back to check on Benny and the gang. There was RL70 Leina hauling up on rocks. Leina spots RH76 Kala and RN14 Kalani in the playboy pond. There was no interaction. Lefty RG28 was in a water hole to the right. Now there was another seal hauling in by RL70 and its Kaale RH32. He sees RN14 and RH76 in the pond, turned to go around to seal inlet to the right and settled in there. And unfortunately Benny was gone missing out.

Melody went to Waikiki to look for Kaiwi RK96. Sure enough she was there and almost finished with her molt. Other than a couple of lose pieces on her face and hind flipper she is looking quite beautiful and clean. Kaiwi was close to the water's edge when Melody arrived late morning. She stayed for about an hour then galumphed into the water getting half her body in the water. Just when it looked like she was going to leave she turned around went back up on the sand and took a nap.

RL98

RN58

RO40

RW02

R3CX Nalu

RL20 Kalua

Benny RE74

Kala RH76

Kala and Benny

RG28 Lefty

Kalani RN14

Aukai RL12

RL42 Leia

RM31 Kai

RL70

Kaale and RL70

Kaiwi RK96

Thursday, June 10, 2021

06/10/2021 Thursday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Tammy, Gamma Gayle, and Team R&B💕. I also have an announcement from Dana Jones of HMSPO.

In celebration of World Ocean's Day, HMSPO will have a booth at Sea Life Park on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm. Please if you're in the area go by say hello, show your support and spend a little time enjoying the park! You never know who you might bump into!

Gamma Gayle sent some photo of Kaiwi who returned to Kaimana Beach today. I think we can all agree Momma Kaiwi did a great job raising Loli'i P02 from a tiny baby into a big fat weaner! Now it's time for her to get back to her normal weight and get ready for her yearly molt. He's going to be just fine.

I am sure all of you have seen on social media and the news of the NOAA Team capturing the chunk ball and removing him from the beach. He'll be relocated to a less populated beach away from unleashed dogs, swimmers, paddlers and random pink floaties. Be well Loli'i!

Tammy did Ka'ena trek on her own today, which turned out to be a "who's on first" seal kind of day. There were lots of interactions and seals moving around, and to top it off some were not very cooperative showing enough to get positive IDs. Tammy's first find was Holokai RG40. On a rechedk later in the afternoon he was gone.

Next stop was Mom RL42 Leia and Puka P03. They had just hauled out after a swim, and Tammy assumed next up was a feeding and nap. She didn't stay with them for very long.

Onward her next find was Kami RL74 resting peacefully. She still has a hook and a little bit of line on her left side, although Tammy was unable to get a good look at it.

Then there was a U/M at the runway. By location, male seal and at least one tag her best educated guess would be RO40 Ka'ena. But without seeing any positive markers he was reported as a U/M.

Once Tammy made it out to the point she found R3CX Nalu resting on the reef. She heard him bark

several times, and then to her surprise she saw two seals fighting in the outer pool. One was ID'd as PvKauai RW02 by his tags, the other seal was an U/M. It could have been either Ka'ena or RK36 by it's pit scar on it's back and both have been in the area. After a little time a seal hauled into the channel, then dove into the outer pool. Lesley had joined Tammy at this point, both looked at the several scars but could not make a positive ID at that time. Sometime later Ka'ena did show up and hauled out into the same channel as the previous UM. On her way out she stopped to see RL42 and PO3. And further down the beach she found Lina RL98.

Team R&B spent hours trying to figure out who three seals were at pokai bay today. There was one seal foraging close to shore and by the boats. Turns out this beautiful critter was Lei Ola, with her clean newly molted coat and tags. The second seal was very small and green foraging near the jetty. Hmmm wonder who this could be? None other than RL20 Kalua. The third seal was RG28 Lefty who chased Lei Ola up on the rocks and stayed with her. He went as far as blocking her from exiting.

Kaiwi RK96