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Thursday, September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand, Team T&D, Posse Pal Vicki and Melody.

Vicki brings updates from the "yesteday" news department. On Tuesday she found the lovely Miss Sadie hanging out on a beach in Hauula.
Then further north she found Makoa RL36 snoozing alone at one of the coves. She also found Holokai RG40 and Squinty R330 out at the point.

On her way out Holokai was gone, but now Katy RK80 was there heading into the water. It seemed as though she wanted Squinty to come and play, because she kept rolling around in the shallows looking over to him ( little flirt). But Squinty was not interested and I can't say I blame him since he's in the midst of molting.

Team T&D made it to Ka'ena Point and ran into Lesley on her way out. Since they all saw all the same critters we'll just update from here. Their first fins was PVKauai RW02 on the flats.
Next they found Aukai RL12 on the coral beach looking beautiful.
And lastly they found RIP RR70 resting in one of the tide pools. As the tide and surf were rising all seals did move up.

Team Billand out and about at 6:30 this morning and located RH92 Nalani back at the construction site beach. She was restless, whooping, rolling around and then landed. She finally settled in the shallows, the thing is she is normally pretty calm, but not today.
Team Billand called the hotline, updated them on RH92 and some of the characters hanging out by her.

At 12:30 Team Billand made a quick check on her and Nalani was now on the sand resting.
Just before 3 pm Team Billand did their last check and saw a volunteer's truck and NOAA's Ted Kearns leaving the area. Team Billand checked to see if RH92 was still there and she was still resting alone.

Team Billand made the rounds and at 8 am they found Pohaku RO28 resting on shore peacefully. She did move up as the surf was rising.

At 11:40 am Team Billand spotted a green seal coming in heading higher up on rocks. It was RN14 Kalani, looking around. He must have given up looking for chicks and finally settled down only to get washed over by the waves.
On their afternoon check he was gone.

On their last leg, Team Billand checked to see if they could find Lei Ola, unfortunately they did not.
Instead, they did find their long lost butthead. Here was Ka'ale RH32 looking beautiful with his new coat, resting on the rocks. His tags and belly were exposed, and he's still looking fat and happy.

Then news from Melody, she first spotted Rocky RH58 at 9 this morning. It looked like she had arrived sometime during the night, since there was a wallow up on the crest of the sand, but no zone set up. When Melody arrived she was partially in the water. Melody captured a few shots before she entered the water and went for a swim. Melody sent Team Billand a text to keep their eye open for her.

Then this evening just before 6 pm Melody went back down the beach to check if Miss Rocky had come back. After checking a few spots sure enough Melody spotted a head coming up over the crest of the sand. Rocky was just hauling out into her favorite spot in the morning glories.
Melody called security and they showed up with signs about 10 minutes later. As the crowds gathered there were lots of questions, which Melody was happy to educate and share Rocky stories.

Holokai RG40