12/21/2021 Tuesday Monk Seal Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Team R&B💕

It was a drizzly kind of day, making it difficult to get good pictures of seals that were further away. There were seals foraging/fighting off the shores at Kahe. Unfortunately there were snorkelers following close by the seals for a long time. They saw four seals just off the out fall at first.  Then the snorkelers entered the area and that was it. They were following the seals taking pictures.  Really really irritating.

The first seal to haul out in the area was RN14 Kalani. He made his

way up on the rocks where he stayed for the day. Next up was R3CX Nalu hanging out close to RN14.

Hope from NOAA was onsite and was able to apply bleach IDs on these boys! (happy happy happy)

RN14 Kalani was bleached left shoulder, right side, dorsal posterior N14

R3Cx Nalu was bleached right and left side N6

Team R&B went looking for seals so they could be bleached, seems somehow they knew and were all MIA.  One of the locations that Team R&B had seen the fishing line, they asked Hope if she could cut it since it was a spot where the seals haul out. Hope gathered the lines cut it and took it away.  (thank you Hope!!!)

Hope spotted two seals and alerted Team R&B. They walked over to the area and there was RM31 with RL98.

RL98 was bleached on her left side with N34

RM31 was bleached on right side shoulder area N4 

Checking back they found RG28 Lefty. He was right by RN14 on the rocks.

RG28 was bleached on the rights side N29 (might look like N24)

They also found RP30 Puka on the rocks sound a sleep. There was no need to bleach this little guy since he already has M30 applied bleach.

irritating people with seals

R3CX

RN14

Bleached N14 and N6

Hope cutting up the line

 RM31

RL98

RL98 and RM31

N34 & N4

Lefty N29

RP30 Puka