04/06/2021 Tuesday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team R&B and yours truly.  Please make sure you read through to the next post about 20 years of monk seal sightings from Marilyn and DB.

Team R&B found Lefty RG28 at a west side location, he was near the inlet snoozing alone.  They hung around for a while but there were no other seals in the area. When they did a recheck later in the day they spotted another critter doing 5 minute dives and foraging. Eventually they were able to ID R3CU. They wait to see if he would haul out but he never landed.

Team R&B went to check out paradise cove and found no seals. They heard kid screaming, he got stung

by a box jelly fish. So the good people they are Team R&B went looking and found over 300 of them on shore. They picked up as many as they could. After filling two gallon plastic bags they let people know to be careful as there were still some around. 

From there Team R&B went to check the bay and found R3CX Nalu on the rocks snoozing. They were also treated to a couple of whales off shore.

They did go and check out yoks and saw two people walk up to a seal and take some photos. They could not ID the critter so it was reported as a U/M. They could not stay and wasn't able to get a photo.

I headed over to view Rabbit Island and observed four critters between 1:30 and 3:15.  I was happy that Pua RF34 (mom) and P01 the kid were visible.  Mom didn't move much and the kid did a lot of flipper waving. The good news I was able to see how much it has grown and its natural bleach was visible from time to time.

The other two critters were both male and both had tags. One male was larger adult size and really didn't move much snoozed the entire time. The other male had tags (brighter in color) and was slightly smaller so I would say sub-adult size. I looked for a quite some time and I am pretty confident it had a male belly.

Lefty RG28

R3CU

box jellies in the sand

Nalu R3CX

Whales!

Pua RF34 and P01

U/M and U/SA

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