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Sunday, June 4, 2023

June 4, 2023 Sunday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕. PLEASE check out part 2, in that its an update from our posse Lesley. She been busy at work at Ka'ena so its not always easy to update us here on the blog.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:30 to 2:30 and there were three seals on island.

Hauling out together on the rock flats of LPB were the two weaners. At 1:50, the weaner RS12 (PO4) started moving towards LPB. At 2:06 RS34 entered the water. At 2:25, RS12 entered the water. At 2:25, one of the weaners hauled out again about 40 feet of the 1BS. Marilyn wasn't sure which weaner.

At 1:22, Marilyn found RK38 Hali'a (Sadie's 2018 kid & RS12's big sister). She was hauled out on the rocks flats near SRI. She later moved up onto the beach, then rolled down near the water again, then went back up the beach.

Team R&B spent hours at the bay today trying to id a seal. The first seal they spotted really made them work today. They finally realized it was RL20 Kalua, who just hauled out as they arrived. Then some dude who was a dad threw a rock at him. They yelled out for him to stop! He turned and looked like why? They told him the seal is sleeping just resting. Soon after he and his family left.

They were having a conversation with Miss Holly when she heard seal snorts. They looked around and spotted two seals trying to haul up. One of them didn't seem familiar with the area.

Finally the Unknown Female hauled up first and went into the crevice of the rocks. She was hiding from RG28 Lefty, who was galumphing up next to her.

The U/F had no tags, dots on her head, a cc scar on right foreflipper area. Two line scares on her upper left butt area.

Lastly they came across a precious little male that looked really tired. They didn't see any tags, but he had a unique bleach mark on lower right area.. He had a cc scar under belly near foreflipper. A line scar on his neck/chest area, and they think another cc scar on left front flipper. He looks to be about 2 years old, coat is minty green. It took them forever to tell it was a male, since he was wedged in the rocks.

Lastly they headed over to white plains and found a very big seal. It kept moving up and down due to the big surf. They were able to ID RN14 Kalani with his head wound

healing. (its not raw looking). His bleach on the right side was visible as well. As they got closer they could see his head was under the fence. They took the time to educate as many kids and adults they could talk to. Asking all to be respectful to the seal. Most were respectful.

Team R&B called the hotline, who wanted to know how many people. They wanted photos of the SRA that the lifeguards had put up. Team R&B let them know there were over 200 folks on the beach. I don't know if they ever sent a volunteer to keep people back or to check out Kalani's predicament.

Rabbit Island