MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: 2/25/2018 Monk Seal Dailies:

Sunday, February 25, 2018

2/25/2018 Monk Seal Dailies:

Today's dailies are brought to you by; Marilyn, Gayle, Team Billand, Lesley, Melody and posse pal Johnny.

Mrs. Whisperer got a later start but managed to spend a couple of hours at Makai Pier. Since it was overcast there was a fair amount of haze viewing Rabbit Island but she still spotted two critters about 40 feet east of the 3BS. There was a smaller seal with a light belly female, with two tags. The seal may have some sort of scar on her left side behind her LFF, no other identifying marks were seen.
The other seal appeared to be an adult male. Marilyn did not see any tags, and there were no natural bleaches on flippers so RN46 was ruled out.

Gayle spotted one critter at Rabbit Island this morning and hit the jackpot 3 days in a row finding her favorite Kaiwi once again at Kokee.

Team Billand was out at Paradise Cove early this morning and for the second day in a row it was blocked off. At Lagoon 3 they found a 90 lb turtle on shore surrounded by tourist feeding it lettuce and petting it. Team Billand stepped in and drew a line around the turtle and noticed it was entangled, fishing line around both flipper, right flipper been eaten up. Team Billand called, Turtle Rescue, hotline, and DLNR who was the only responder. They took the turtle to their truck and hopefully away to get some help.

Next stop for Team Billand Leeward Beach where they found Kekoa RK72 already hauled up high on the rocks.

The next critter they came across was RW02 PvKauai he was alone at first resting. After their check of the other side they came back to find Kaale RH32 joined RW02 and was a total brat. They both ended up in the ponds, going from pond to pond with Kaale after poor RW02. In one pond Kaale got held down underwater, Kaale flying his hind flippers in the air. RW02 went to next water hole, Kaale right by him like a magnet. RW02 hugged him, slapped him, great observation.

Team Billand made a stop at Electric Beach where there were lots of divers and beach folks. Benny RE74 was resting and some dude decided to hang out in front of him clapping his hands. Volunteer Karen worked quickly to get a zone in place, and deal with this dude who was just a few feet from Benny. Volunteer Karen managed to get the job done (not an easy task ... good work). Once things were okay they left to continue their day.

Lesley and Kimo went out for their evening walk and checked up on RN58 Luana. They found her on the beach where she had spent the day, looking beautiful and content.

Photographer Melody was town side today and she came across Miss Pohaku RO28 hanging out at Kaimana's. (Makes me wonder what the appeal is, there must be some good food eating in the area).

I also got an email from Posse Pal Johnny from Honolulu showing off Pohaku RO28.
Thank you All!

Rabbit Island Critters Juvenile Female, Adult Male