March 28, 2023 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island for about an hour today trying to get her observations in between rain squalls. There were four seals on island today.

On the rock flats Lanikai side of LPB were two seals:

Seal 1 - probably adult size, gray male belly and not sure about tags.

Seal 2 - probably a subadult to adult size, light ventral size and no information on tags.

In the same tide pool as the past few days near the 3BS were Mom and PO3. Marilyn didn't see much of either of them today since they were mostly hidden in the tide pool. The pup did crawl up on the rock and draped itself over Mom.

Team R&B started at the outfall where they spotted a seal foraging. There was RL20 Kalua alone getting himself some breakfast. He was mostly in the middle area, bu they were lucky to get a tag shot.

Next they decided to check out secrets and to their surprise there were no seals. They overheard two tourist saying they were glad they saw the sea lion.  Team R&B asked them where, and they pointed to a seal high up on the Honolulu side of the rocks sleeping.  They would have missed him if they didn't hear the tourist talking.  So they got the signs and educated the folks that came by. They called the hotline but no one came out today.

The seal was RN14 Kalani, Team R&B did the best they could with all the people passing through to go see the turtles. They tried to keep them away from the area of RN14. 

Then they spotted a seal coming in fast, it was LEfty RG28. He looked around at the area, sees a man sitting on the rocks. Lefty went over to the Waianae rock side and hauled up. Tourist stood right there and took pictures despite being asked to backup and give the seal room. They called the hotline, did their best and then left.

Team R&B did an inspection at paradise cove and saw a seal on the reef. It was RH32 Kaale, but no signs or volunteer today.  They did see an officer at secrets, which is good, maybe people will listen.

At another west side location they found RH76 Kala.  She was alone resting at seal inlet.  There were lots of folks from the camp walking around it was a little uneasy so they didn't stay.

Rabbit Island

RL20

RN14

RG28

RH32

RH76