MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: 3/30/2018 Monk Seal Dailies:

Friday, March 30, 2018

3/30/2018 Monk Seal Dailies:

Today's dailies are brought to you by Gayle, Lesley and Melody. Based on everyone's emails it was a slow seal sighting day. Maybe because of the heat and humans enjoying the beach they decided to lay low. (one can only hope) ** Just in from Posse pal Vicki she found RI37 Ipo on a Hauula Beach***

Gayle's only sighting was of a critter hanging out on Rabbit Island. She checked the usual spots for the usual suspects but came up empty.

Melody arrived at White Plains at 10:30 am and a seal had just hauled out on shore. The lifeguards has just finished putting up some signs and roped off the zone, and the critter was resting peacefully sleeping. Since today was Good Friday (holiday) there were a ton of beach goers. Melody called the hotline and gave them the location. After the call she checked out the sleeping beauty and based on her scars Melody ID'd Pohaku RO28 looking big and plump. Since the beach was so crowded there were plenty of folks with questions. Melody was able to help out with a little monk seal 101. Volunteer arrived at 12:30 and Melody left shortly after that.

Lesley did the Ka'ena Point Trek and she had a much better day, here is her update:

On my way out to the point this morning I stopped to pick up a pile of ghost nets on the side of the Coastal Rd and out on some reefs. UTV was packed to it's max but still found place for more along the way.

Met up with some young hikers as I was parking at the boulders and walked into the NARS with them. They were please to have a 1 on 1 outreach, so they tagged along al the way to the point. I showed some of the Albatross chick. We saw RW02 "PVKauai" in Ka'ena's Pool, RR70 "RIP" & R330 "Squinty" in the Main Pool.

It took a while to confirm "RIP's" ID cause he was doing the hippo and wouldn't show me much to confirm his ID (for NOAA). I was very please to see "Squinty" he had been MIA for some time. perhaps did a visit out to Niihau or Kauai.

Heading back I checked Ka'ena's Pool again and found RO40 "Ka'ena" hauled out at the entrance face to face with RW02 "PVKauai" they were sleeping and no interaction was observed.

Rabbit Island Critters