March 11, 2024 Monday's Dailies

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

In yesterdays news department posse pals Justin & Christine made it out to Ka'ena Point. They spotted five seals on Sunday.

They saw a seal with a tag 3CB (new to me), it had an antenna (sat tag). This critter was hanging out with RP30 2 year old Puka.  They also saw TA68 who had a cookie cutter bite that looked like it might have been bleeding a little bit. There was another critter with N1

applied bleach close by.

Then there was R416 N10 in another tide pool.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:59 to 2:48 and there were four seals seen during that time. They're probably the same seals that were on Rabbit Island on Sunday.

Out on the rock flats of LPB was a seal labeled as Adult Male. Yesterday this seal was labeled Unknown Sub-adult 1. The A/M: adult size, sandy male belly and she did not see tags.

Down from 3BS was a Juvenile Female: larger juvenile size, light tan female belly and two red tags. The JF later move up into the dunes.

Up in the dunes among the morning glory between 3BS and SRI was an Adult Female: large adult size, older coat, tannish brown female belly and two red tags. 

The A/F was visited by the A/M. He nudged her several time and she changed her position, but never moved down out of the dunes. Ultimately the AM moved part way down the beach.

Near to the cliff behind SRI was an Unknown Sub-adult: sub-adult size, older coat, mottled ventral and two red tags. The US appear to have a darker scar, wound or pigment patch on its upper chest.

Team R&B's first stop they watched the dolphins out putting on quite a show, lots of jumping. 

They also witnessed the lifeguards on jet skis rescuing more than eight divers who got caught in the currents.

They did find Mr Kekoa Alii RK72 hauled out. He was alone and resting.

They spotted a seal high up on shore, so they headed over to find a big fat female R. They called the hotline and sent information on location. Team R&B stayed watching over R406 until noon. They made a zone with sticks and educated folks when they tried to get close up.  

They got a call about a large monk seal on shore at plains. They hurried over to find the very large marge RL12 Aukai. She was on she shoreline getting hit by waves. She moved up and you could see how really big she is. Big Mahalo to the lifeguards for keeping her safe and putting up a zone for her.

Team R&B went to check nimitz thinking they might find a seal out there. Sure enough R407 Kawika was there, and they had suspected he headed in a south west direction.  He was at Kermits Reef resting.

R416

3CB

RP30

N1 might be N11 just missing a digit

TA68

Rabbit Island

RK72

R406

RL12

R407