Another fun day out here. Team T&D came by and we headed out to monitor the point together. Our first sighting was a beautiful freshly molted RK40 Napua @ 10 Mns Beach.
Next at the point RL74 Kami was on a reef on the waterline - she entered the water and sawm to another spot where she hauled out high and went to sleep
R330 Squinty did a swim by in the Main Pool, went out, came back in. We left he was doing the hippo.
We hiked the West side towards Keawa'ula. Team T&D pointed out towards the 30 Mns mark where 2 seals were hauled out on the reefs. As we got there, they pointed to a third seal bellow us. The first 2 seals were RN14 Kalani and RL20 Kalua green as a Kermit. The third one was RW02 PVKauai. We watched them for some time to confirm ID's, Kalani was the one that took the longest to ID. His NB on mid body right side kept throwing me off. At first I thought it could be RW22 Kolohe, but the NB was to small and further back on the body, so I waited for hi, to move. Got a chipped tag, no info.... then finally the confirmation tag. They entered the water and swam towards KPt. I hoped to see them again but didn't. Later we got info from Barbara saying she saw them haul out in different locations.
On our way back I went to check on some campers towards CE. On my way back I saw a seal hauling out at Lyman's West. So I headed there to ID it. It was RE74 Benny, before I was able to confirm his ID he did the Benny thing and rolled still wet on the soft dry sand... voila a breaded seal to ID!! Luckly I had a shot of his tag to confirm his ID.
When we were leaving the point Tammy saw an Albatross Chick take his test flight. We were cheering him from far as he came bee line from the middle field towards us on the makai trail. He landed in a Naupaka bush and we waited to see if he could make it out. He did and waddled his way back towards the center field. It completed Tammy's day.
More tomorrow 
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