01/20/2022 Thursday's Dailies

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

Team T&D hikes out to Ka'ena Point today and met up with Lesley.  On their hike they saw three seals.

First find was RL98 Lina who was very well hidden. The way they saw her was a flipper on a shiny rock. Turns out the shiny rock was RL98. 

They got to see a black footed and a laysan albatross take off together. 

Next seals on their hike was RG28 Lefty.

The last find of the day was RL47 Kamakana. This was the first time for Team T&D seeing him. Always interesting to see a Rabbit Island pup out and about.

Team R&B arrived at a west side location thinking there was one seal. They saw a fat female RH76 Kala way up on the rocks snoozing. 

Then they spotted another seen was high in the mid rocks. It was Kekoa Alii RK72 being pushed about the the incoming waves. He galumphed higher up to settle in and hide from the big waves.

Next Team R&B hurried over to a busy beach to find two seals high up in the corner of the rocks and Naupaka bushes. It was RH32 Kaale and Aukai RL12.  Kaale wanted Aukai to stay close but she wasn't interested. 

There were lots of visitors today, they did their best to educate as many as they could. Some folks went past the signs but when they were told about the seals they were good about turning around. Its a tough spot for the seals to be as everyone wants to go by the seals.

With much appreciation Melody came by and took over for them Team R&B left to find other critters.

They returned to one site to find the little guy from Kalaupapa RP84 hauled out. He was in a spot so

well hidden it was hard to photograph him again. They tried for a while to get an ID shot, but he did not cooperate at all.

While trying to get a better shot of RP84 they spotted an adult seal doing 5 minute dives foraging off shore. It took it a while to haul out, but finally they were able to see RW02 PvKauai. He came into the shallows and stayed to the right.

Team R&B left and headed west, they were happy to find a little seal on shore. There was little cutie RM31 Kai. They saw a lady walking slowly towards him, but once she saw Team R&B she turned away.

Last stop they found to hauled out to the right was R3CX Nalu alone. He looked like he might be ready to be heading out. 

On the other side there was RL20 Kalua alone. The kid was snoozing away on the rocks.

RG28

RL47

RL98

RH76  Kala

RK72 Kekoa Alii

RH32 Kaale

RL12 Aukai

Aukai and Kaale

RP84

RW02

RM31 Kai

R3CX 

RL20