October 17, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Lesley, posse pal Vicki and Melody. 
Melody's update falls under the yesterday news in that I missed her email yesterday.

Yesterday Melody surveyed a few beaches with a new HMSPO (Hawaiian Monk Seal Preservation Ohana) volunteer Diana. They had the opportunity to put practice in place when they were lucky enough to come across a couple of critters.
First critter was G28 "Lefty" snoozing on the rocks in one of his favorite tide pools. Interesting note he is Nanea's four year old brother. This was Melody's first encounter with Lefty. 

The next stop they came across Kekoa Alii RK72. He was peacefully snoozing on the lower rocks in a tide pool. initially they had a hard time getting an ID especially since he was not cooperating by showing his tags. Volunteer Melina arrived and between all of them they finally got a glimpse of his tags and got a positive ID. He finally flipped his flippers and Melina also pointed out his line scar on the right side of his face.

Posse pal Vicki was on a mission and out early this morning. She first checked the Waikiki beaches but no one was around, so she got in the car and headed north.
Around lunchtime she finally found a critter on the north shore. Holokai was ID'd by his G40 tag.

Then a little further down there was an adult male and Vicki was unable to see any tags. She called it into the hotline, but no one showed up.  It was a slow day and there wasn't much foot traffic.  Vicki stated if she had to guess, she would say this adult male might be Squinty.  (maybe some of our experts could take a look).

Holokai RG40

 unknown adult male (small wound on right eye)

RG28 Lefty

 Kekoa RK72