01/05/2022 Wednesday's Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 10:45 to 1:50 and there were a total of 5 seals today.  With the large waves, there were lots of surfers out today. There was also lots of boats, kayaks, paddle boards transporting the surfers.

Initially there were three seals between 3BS and SRI, but within 10 minutes of Marilyn's observations two more seals joined the group. There were fours males and one female.

A/M 1 - subadult to adult size, newer coat, lighter gray male belly and two tags. 

RK37 Hui'a - subadult size, yellowish female belly, two tags and nb on the rear lower left side.

RK24 Waeamalu/Bruno - subadult size (smaller than RK37): light male belly, two tags and a scar on his side about 1/3 forward from his rear flippers.

A/M 2 - adult size, newer coat, gray male belly and at least one tag on RRF.

A/M 3 - large adult size, male belly and no visible tags, Seal appears to be about 45% molted with most of the ventral side molted except for some areas near rear flippers. The dorsal surface appears to be almost entirely old fur. Marilyn did not see any scar/wound above the right nasal area, last seen on 12/29. Maybe the molting process has resolved the issue.

Team R&B started out nice and early and spotted one seal foraging at the outfall. The water was filthy and there was R3CX Nalu making his way through it. 

He moved on, popped out in front of them at another location. He tried to haul up on the rocks but the tide was still to high so he left for another location.

At the 3rd location there he was on shore. A zone was set up by one of Team R&B's posse pall. Nalu looked comfortable,  even with all the surfers crossing in front of him.

Team R&B did some back tracking and this time there was a seal on the rocks. It was RN14 Kalani settled in and his beautiful applied bleach was visible.

While at the site they saw some whales and caught one breaching.

At another west side location they spot a seal on the rocks. They studied it for a long time, they saw a healed shark bite on upper chest and a subtle bleach mark on left side. Finally they got a fin flex and they were shocked to see R3CU/R3CV.  Another male from Kauai. He looks great, nice coat and healthy girth.

Their next find they spotted a little seal snoozing on the rocks alone. They got a tag shot and see its RP30 Puka. He is doing really well, getting along in life on his own.

If that wasn't good enough they found his brother Kai RM31 in between the rocks. It took them a bit to get his ID. He is also doing just fine. Very cool to find the two youngens making their way on their own.

Rabbit Island

Nalu

RN14

Whale breach

R3CU

RP30

RM31