12/23/21 Thursday Monk Seal Dailies

 

Todays dailies are brought to you by Team T&D and Team R&B💕.

Team T&D hiked out to Ka'ena point with Lesley.  It was a very slow seal day, but that doesn't mean there wasn't other interesting things happening.  The lone seal find was RL74 Kami!

Their other finds, and this goes on to the top of the list of weird finds, a dead boar. This could possibly be the one that attacked the surfer several days ago. 

More in the normal finds was a glaucous winged gull, and lots of albatross flying.

There were lots and lots of visitors, mostly families, winter break in full force.

Team R&B arrived at west side location and found R407 Kawika on the rocks at seal inlet. He was

resting alone and was just fine.

Later in the day they did a recheck and found RN14 Kalani was on lower rocks. He was alone resting enjoying the Hawaiian sun. They were able to see his new applied bleach N14!

R407 was still there but in a different spot than RN14.

At another location they spotted R3CX Nalu hiding in the rocks. While looking at him they noticed there were flies buzzing around his chest/neck area.  Upon further observations, they realized he has a shark bite on his beck. They counted about 8 bites hole, two lower area. 

Later checking on him, he was still on the rocks but in the shallow pond. they could still see the bite marks.

Team R&B got several calls of three seals on shore, fighting with lots of tourists getting close. They headed over and found RH32 Kaale below, RG28 Lefty, and RL12 Aukai.  Auntie had three signs but no ropes, so she used yellow tape, that was being stretched out by the strong winds.

They called the hotline to report. Team R&B took off the yellow tapes, trying to keep folks away from the seals.  Auntie called Security, a new zone was made with more signs and ropes.

All was good, so they left area for the day, hoping that a volunteer would be there soon.

RH32 Kaale left, swimming in the water for a while, when two folks went snorkeling. They told them to watch of for the seal, then Kaale took off, they did not see him again.

Ending their day on a sweet note, they found little RP30 Puka on the rocks taking a long snooze. He was alone.

Then they found his momma RL42 Leia on the rocks in a different spot. She is looking rather plump these days.

RL74

dead boar

albatross

R407

RN14

R3CX

Three Seals

RL12

RG28

RH32

RP30

RL42