11/02/2020 Monday Monk Seal Dailies

 

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand.  

Team Billand arrived at KoOlina where there were no seals, but they did get to see a beautiful sunrise.

At 8:15 they found Kekoa Alii RK72 at a west side location. He was seen on lower rocks alone. He stayed there all day long. They spotted a seal coming in, looking around, but then it took off. They were not able to get an ID so it was reported as an UU.

Just before 10:30 they were at the bay and spotted R3CX Nalu on the rocks. His tags were visible and

they did not see any line on him today, maybe he tossed it.

There were seals out on opposite side of the jetty. They saw three seals playing in the water, one was Lei Ola RH48 and the other ewas Kaale RH32. Lei Ola would land first, Nalu was already up on the rocks from earlier. He didn't move, seemed tired and full belly. He looked up at her and she came all the way up. She is looking quite large, and very green with tags showing. Next up was Kaale RH32, by the time they got back there he was already hauled up with Lei Ola and Nalu.  The original third seal seen in the bay went back around the jetty to the right and was foraging.

They saw Aukai RL12 foraging in the bay. Her signature scar between shoulders were the give away. RL20 Kalua was also foraging by the buoy and swimmers. A few times he made his way by the jetty.

Team Billand drove out further west and did not see any seals, they did see a couple of asses and some cows.

After looking through out the day they finally found Benny Re74. He

was at a west side beach. His molting is looking like its moving along. Seems the swim did him some good. 

Just before 3 they went back to one of the locations and now found RL70 Leina hidden away. It took them a bit to get her ID. Kekoa was still in the same lower rock spot snoozing.

Kekoa RK72

UU

Lei Ola RH48

R3CX Nalu

Kaale RH32

Lei Ola and Kaale

Aukai RL12

RL20 Kalua

A couple of Asses

Benny

RL70 Kalua