Tuesday, January 21, 2020

01/21/2020 Tuesday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Lesley and Team Billand. Lesley's Ka'ena update is part two of the dailies.

Team Billand was up and at em before the sun came up. They headed over to KoOlina to see if Pohaku had returned but they did not see her at the lagoon. A little later they checked several other close by locations and spotted her about 300 feet off shore, logging. She was breathing above the water dunking her head down and every 15 minutes lifting her head. They eventually lost sight of her.

Later when Team Billand returned Pohaku was at KoOlina about 200 feet off shore.  The currents seem to keep her from coming in and kept taking her further out. They stayed until 2 pm.

At 10 am Team Billand spotted RG28 Lefty at a haul out by the outfall. He was alone, snoozing on the rocks. On their second check he was in the water hole alone and snoring.

While watching Lefty G28 a small clean seal passed off shore. The snorklers were in the water chasing after it, the small critter kept going toward KoOlina.

Whales were off the coast and Team Billand managed to catch a nice fluke shot.

From here Team Billand headed over to westside location where they spotted four critters:
RL20 Kalua, R3CX Nalu, RN14 Kalani, and a U/U.

On a second check of the location R3CU joined the party, all other critters were still there.

At 2 pm Team Billand made a quick stop and spotted an adult seal at Campells foraging doing 7 minute dives. They were unable to make an ID.
On their way home they got a call of a seal at white plains, but they were so exhausted they just called it into the hotline and did not go. HOPEFULLY a volunteer was able to respond.

 Pohaku RO28
RG28 Lefty

 U/U foraging
 Whale fluke 
 R3CU
 R3CX/CZ Nalu 
 RL20 Kalua
 RN14 Kalani 
 U/U
UU @ Campbells

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