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Friday, August 23, 2024

August 23, 2024 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:15 to 2:45 pm and there were five seals seen during that time.

Out on the Lanikai side of LPB was R416 Makali'i. He is subadult to adult size, older coat. lots of distinctive markings on his male ventral and N10 applied bleach.

Near 1BS were three seals together:

RT90 Manapua: large weaner size, chubby and light colored male belly and two red tags.

Subadult Female: subadult size, maybe molting with light female belly and two red tags. It is possible this may be RS12 who has been going through her gradual juvenile molt.

RP24 Mohala: subadult size, new coat, light gray female belly, two red tags and nb on the tip of her LFF.

Initially about 30 feet Makapuu side of the other three seals and near the waterline was weaner RT19. He later moved closer to the other

three seals and up the beach.

About 2:05 pm RT90 entered the water and RP24 followed him into the water a short time later. Marilyn saw them playing offshore.

At about 2:30 Marilyn noticed the SF and RT19 had also left the beach.

Team R&B did a lot of searching today and finally at Pokai they saw a fat seal coming in with the waves, heading to the rocks. They were able to ID Miss Kala RH76. She galumphed up on the rocks and plopped herself down where she stayed for the day.

Once again while looking for seals they were treated to the dolphins putting on a show.

When they arrived at the cliffs they found RM31 Kai hidden in the rocks again, pretty much same spot as yesterday. They tried all different angles to get a shot of him and finally they found an opening blocked by a shrub. Patience persisted in the hot sun, but they got the ID shot of RM31, and his applied N9 bleach.

Before calling it a day they went back to check on Kala RH76. She was still there in the same area. However off in the distance they saw another seal. It was RH32 Kaale on the left sleeping. They saw there were rocks being thrown and checked it out. There was a guy tossing the rocks so they called out to let the seal rest and stop throwing the rocks. The guy answered he was just showing them where the seal was..... hmmmm!