October 23, 2023 Monday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit ISland from 1:30 to 3:05 and there were six seals during that time.

About 20 feet from the 1BS was RK24 Bruno/Wawamalu: small adult size, new coat, light gray male belly an two red tags. Marilyn only had a rear flipper view of him today.

About15 feet from RK24 was Adult Male 1 : adult size, old coat, brown belly and two red tags.

About 50 feet in the Makapuu direction was Adult Male 2 : large adult size, brown male belly with lots of nicks an scars on the ventral side and two red tags.

Another 50 feet in the Makapuu direction was a Juvenile Female 1 : juvenile size, old coat, two red tags, and a gray female belly.

Between 3BS and SRI were two seals:

Juvenile Female 2 : juvenile size, newer coat, light female belly and two red tags. She might be a weaner, but looked to be be too large.

J/F 2 was with a Subadult Male: smaller subadult size, old coat with a fair amount of green and two red tags. The two seals entered the water together about 1:35 pm  and played for about 20 minutes in the water and then hauled out back where they started.

Tammy is visiting the Big Island and has been out several days looking for seals and always coming up empty. Well today was her lucky day! It was a big beautiful female tagged R408. 

Hope Miss Tammy sees a couple more seals before returning to Oahu.

Team R&B first stop at the bay. They were happy to see RH76 Kala alone and  resting.  She is looking good as she should a fat momma!  (just an expression, I do not know if she is pregnant). 

Team R&B noted the weather was strange, windy, chilly and gloomy skies. It looked like there would be a downpour, but it didn't happen.

At the outfall they saw an adult seal foraging. They couldn't make an ID, other than adult size, green coat and was in a hurry leaving the outfall. It went near a group of divers and swam right passed then and was out of sight.

Just after 10 am they spotted a seal haul out from a distance. They could not make an ID from their location so they hurried down to the area. There on shore was the lovely R604.... boy oh boy she is a large Marge.

At another west side location which was their last stop for the day. They found RG28 Lefty inland resting alone.

Rabbit Island

R408 Big Island Female

RH76

Unknown Adult

R604

RG28