04/30/2018 Monk Seal Dailies:

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand and our Canadian Posse Team D&T.  (After tomorrow our Canadian Team will be split up, and we'll just have Darlene on island. Todd safe travels home and see you next year).

Team Billand arrived at KoOlina at 6 am after leaving Paradise Cove. While at Paradise Cove they saw a wallow to the left corner with lots of footprints. ( like the seal was chased off).  At KoOlina they saw another wallow with lots of footprints so they knew some critter had to be around. Sure enough they found Pohaku RO28, BUT she was totally dry, up against the Naupaka resting.  There were no footprints or tracks by her body. According to security she arrived last evening around 7 pm, so she spent the night and wasn't the critter at Paradise Cove. They stayed for a couple of hours and did some outreach. They had called the hotline, but had to leave at 8:15.  

Team Billand arrived at a Leeward Beach at 9:10 and they found RN14 Kalani. He was alone on the rocks and his coat was dry. After checking in on him they went to check a few more beaches and found no other seals. They headed out for an appointment.  Throughout the morning Team Billand kept getting calls of seals from Paradise Cove to Lani's, Lagoon One and Lagoon 4...but they couldn't go because they were at an appointment.

At 12:55 they were finally got to go and check and found security reported a seal in Lagoon 4 and had landed. They found Benny RE74 on the shoreline, resting on his side. He then moved up onto the sand. There were lots of people wanting to know if this was Pohaku and they explained no it's Benny, male 15 years old will be 16 on August 30th.  Then people wanted to know, well how do you know that? Ummm, Team Billand met Benny in 2007 out there for 11 years. They called the hotline again, security had put up the signs. Team Billand left the site at 3:30 pm.

Next stop was Paradise Cove where they found RN14 Kalani up on the rock. They noticed there were signs on the waterline with ropes but no volunteer or anyone monitoring the site.  The tide was rising  and he was getting moved about and got hit pretty good. He rolled over and looking to land on the sand. He soon came charging to the sandy corner of the cove. They ran to get the signs and ropes, folks, came running for a closer look and picture of the seal. Team Billand pleased with them to move back, so he could haul out. They called the hotline to update them. They waited but did not see any volunteer. As they were leaving they could see people chasing the turtles and touching them. Unfortunately they had to leave, so sad people abuse the wild life here.

Canadian Posse Darlene and Todd spent time today with Kaiwi RK96 and PO3.  So happy this couple got to experience their first pup, just wish DB was here with them to enjoy it.  

Pohaku RO28

 RN14 Kalani

 RE74 da Benny

RN14 Kalani at Paradise Cove

Kaiwi and PO3  Water time

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