September 22, 2024 Sunday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:27 to 2:15 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

When Marilyn started viewing there were two seals neat each other about 40 feet Makapuu direction from the 1BS:

R416 Makali'i: sub-adult size, new coat, light male ventral with a variety of scars and dark patches and no tags.

Weaner RT19: normal weaner size, light male belly and two red tags.

At 1:17 pm, larger weaner RT90 Manapua hauled out on the Makapuu side of RT19.  There was a brief interaction between the two weaners, then RT19 moved closer to R416 and they all went into snooze mode. RT90 has a light ventral male belly and two red tags.

On one of Marilyn's scans of the island she spotted a brief flipper flex of a seal in the RRB channel. She only saw a small part of the light ventral of this seal, the rest of it was hidden behind on waterfront tocks of the channel. This seal can only be labeled as an Unknown Unknown, perhaps its the AF she saw at SRI yesterday.

Team R&B had a short day today since they were having a family day. That didn't stop them from from making a couple of quick checks. They found RH76 Kala way up by the grassy area, alone and snoozing. She eventually moved to the rocky zen area to cool down.

While onsite they spotted tow seals off shore foraging together. One was a clean coat female who they ID'd as RH48 Lei Ola. The other seal was an adult male who they ID'd as R3CX Nalu.  Both stayed very close together. They were in the school of fish which has gotten smaller.  

The two seals headed over to the rest-camp area, get really close to land without anyone on shore seeing them.  Team R&B did the beat they could, but ran out of time and needed to go meet up with family.

Rabbit Island

Rh76

RH48 & R3CX