Friday, February 26, 2021

02/26/2021 Friday Monk Seal Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by  Lesley and Team R&B💕.  Lesley's  Ka'ena update is part two of the dailies.

Team R&B first saw Kaale RH32 foraging at the outfall what seemed like forever. They gave up and left the site. 

Later at noon they spotted a seal on shore from afar at tracks. They went over and there was Kaale snoozing.  One of the guys on site approached Team R&B and wondered where they were, because as the seal came in folks rushed over. He told one of the kids to back away.  I am sure after days of crowds around the seals this made Team R&B feel good that someone is out there and cares.

Team R&B got a call of two seals at in Lagoon 2. They were waiting for the traffic to clear and headed off as soon as they could. When they arrive they see RN14 Kalani vocalizing at a woman swimmer, She had just finished her laps and met up with the two seals. Kalani was not happy with her on the shoreline and he went after her and barked out. People were yelling to the woman "Get Out Get Out!!" Securiy was yelling to get out of the way. But the swimmer just stood there talking to the two seals. RN14 Kalani barked at her she was close, and thankfully she got out of the way. 

The two seals moved to the center of the lagoon and hung out there. The other seal was RH92 Nalani and seems Kalani was not liking anyone getting close to them.  Anytime the seals came close to shore, the tourist ran over with their cells. Team R&B explained to them there was a male seal after a female, they need space, please do not get too close.  Team R&B watched for an hour and gave up on the seals hauling out.  They did not that RH92 Nalani was doing her best to get away from Kalani, but he was persistent!

At another west side location there were four seals today. There was RW02 PvKauai on lower rocks, Kekoa Alii RK72 on lower rocks and RH76 Kala, and lastly was R3CU near seal inlet.

Last stop was at the bay and today they only found the beautiful Lei Ola RH48.

Kalani and Nalani and swimmer
Kalani RN14
Nalani RH92
RW02 PvKauai
Kekoa 
RH76 Kala
R3CU
Lei Ola RH48

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