Wednesday, September 1, 2021

09/01/2021 Wednesday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's 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 arrived at Pokai Bay early morning and saw lots of fishing boats tossing chum to catch Halalu. There was RL20 foraging and they spotted a seal swimming by him. The other seal disappeared befor they could get any pictures or and ID.   Later in the day when they checked there were fewer fishermen out and RL20 Kalua was snuggled in the rocks. They were happy and relieved he was out of the water.  They could see a small hook embedded in his chest to the right side. Doesn't look to be a problem its such a small hook.  As Team R&B was walking away two boys went up to the seals. The smaller boy was innocent, but the older one began barking noised at RL20 who barked back. Team R&B paused and took some photos. The smaller boy convinced the bigger boy to stop and they left the area. RL20 remained on the rocks.

Team R&B got word from a friend who said there were two seals at tracks. They hurried over and in the process of arriving they got a text from Melody that RG28 Lefty was at tracks.  When Team R&B arrived they saw another seal on shore, R3CX Nalu on shore.   They hurried to put up a make-shift SRA.  

They went over to the lot area and that is where Lefty RG28 was snoozing with just one sign.  They found two other signs that are kept at the site and put them out. At that point they saw Melody walking towards them and pointing at Nalu. R3CX took off and was heading to RG28's spot.  Team R&B had an appointment and needed to leave, Melody remained.  When they returned later they saw one seal from afar. It looked to be lefty at the bath house and there were no signs.

Team R&B went to check other west side locations and at yoks at the 3rd dip high up on shore they could see a large adult snoozing. They were too far away to get any kind of ID, so the seal was reported as an U/A.

Further down they noticed a seal snoozing on shore (Makua area). They were happy to find the lovely RL42 Leia.  She was alone resting peacefully.

RL20 Kalua
RG28 Lefty
R3CX  Nalu
U/A
RL42 Leia

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