MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: 10/25/2022 Tuesday's Dailies

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

10/25/2022 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Team T&D are on the big island, and met up with some friends. They headed for the beach and found RA20. RA20 is R5AY aka Honey Girl's fourth known offspring. RA20 was born in 2009 on Kauai.

Melody got a text on Monday evening that Rocky was in Waikiki. So she headed down early morning and sure enough she was still there. Lots of people around including a volunteer.

Apparently Rocky displaced another beachgoer last night. The poor woman had to leave her belongings on the beach overnight since Rocky decided to rest her head on her tote bag. When Melody got there this morning Rocky was still too close to retrieve the woman's belongings, it wasn't until 10:45 when the volunteer could get the woman's bag. I think we can all agree Rocky really commands the beach these days.

Team R&B got a call of a single seal on shore. By the time they made it out someone had put up some signs. Team R&B called the hotline to let them know RL12 Aukai was the seal. She was in snooze mode in the warm sun. In spite of it being a busy beach, people were good today, well at least while Team R&B were there. Interesting fact about Aukai, when she was nine months old, she was shot in the head with a spear. Thankfully our mentor DB saw the spear, reported to NOAA and they were able to remove the spear. Thank you NOAA and of course our beloved DB.

At another west side location they found RL20 Kalua. He was snoozing in a hole and eventually came

out long enough for Team R&B get a good look at him. He's 100% done with his molt, looking good.

At the same location but different spot, Team R&B got a glimpse of a seal. It at waterfront rocks in a hole way out. It took them quite awhile to get the ID, but finally they were able to see it was RH76 Kala. They were surprised she fit in the hole, and wondered why she chose to hide that far away.

Lastly they spent some time watching the dolphins who were so active today. They really put on a show today with all kinds of behavior.

RA20 on the Big Island