Saturday, October 20, 2018

10/20/2018 Monk Seal Dailies (part 2) Lesley's Ka'ena Update

Marilyn, Diane & I did the CE Pt to NARS monitoring today
The weather was absolutely lovely and we had an 8 seal day !

We started with RW02 "PVKauai" in front of the Big Camp site.
From there we looked towards CE Pt and CE. Down @ CE we saw a seal. Upon arrival, there were actually 2 seals R303 "BG" & RN58 "Luana"
We then set out to monitor from the gate to the NARS, of course checking every haul out spot.
RK88 "Puna" was @ The Ponds in his favorite little nook. Just beside were Team T&D & I saw him yesterday.
We were just leaving when Marilyn spotted a big seal swimming in The Ponds. We stopped and watched as the seal did a swim around it then left towards Mokuleia side. Our bets were on R330 "Squinty"

In the NARS RO40 "Ka'ena" was in his pool (same as yesterday) and RR70 "RIP" was hauled out on Back Beach.

On our way out we checked in front of the house and there was R330 "Squinty" !

Looking towards CE we saw the seal so we went back to check. R303 "BG" was still there but RN58 "Luana" had moved & hauled out half way towards CE Pt (I don't recall seeing seals there).
I'll go down again for sunset  More tomorrow ðŸŒº

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