October 03, 2023 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:05 to 2:55 and there were two seal seen today.

Midway between 3BS and SRI among the waterfront rocks was an Unknown Juvenile: juvenile size, older coat with a fair amount of green and at least two red tags. The UJ was often coated with sand which made determining its sex unreliable.

Near SRI was an Adult Female: adult size, light female belly and two red tags. This is the same female Marilyn has been reporting with a line scar on her mid right chest area.

Team R&B got to the bay and from afar they saw there was a commotion, bobbing heads as if seals were fighting. They headed over but by they time they got there the seal was gone and further away, They were never able to get a photo.

At Kahe point they spotted another seal from afar. There were five dogs in the area who barked at them, so they stopped and waited for the dogs to leave. Some left and the smaller dogs stayed, so with a stick Team R&B braved their way through.

There below was one seal resting. They were able to ID RQ42 Opihi, who is looking green and chubby.  It stinks he's in a spot with so many dogs running around off leash.

At another west side location they found a green male on the lower rocks. It was Nalu R3CX, who was resting alone. He started to perk up and entered the water, came back up looking. This made Team R&B look around too. Ah Ha! another seal!

There was the lovely R604. R3CX seemed to know she was there but couldn't see her hidden in the upper rocks. She stayed still and quiet.

R3CX worked really hard to see her, but finally gave up and left the site. They didn't see him again.

However Miss R604 remained snoozing peacefully.

Their last seal was a real challenge. The seal was so well hidden in the rocks they had nothing that would give them an ID.  But lady luck was on their side and the seal did a flipper flex and they saw the tags to ID RS20.  Love when they cooperate.

Rabbit Island

RQ42

R3CX

RS20

R604