September 23, 2024 Monday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:50 to 3:45 and there were two seals seen during that time. Marilyn also noted that after communication with Tracy, the seal she has labeled as RT90 yesterday and Friday most likely was a recently molted sub-adult.

For the first hour and half Marilyn did not see any seals and kept herself occupied by reading a good book.  (something DB use to do).  As Marilyn was doing her final scan of the island at 2:21 pm she saw the trace of a seal behind waterfront rocks between SRI and RRB. Later she realized that there were two seals there. She stayed for an additional hour and half, but the time spent didn't give her much more information.

Marilyn is labeling these seals as an Unknown Unknown: probably sub-adult to adult size with and old dark coat.

The other seals was an Unknown Male: probably sub-adult size, light male belly, not sure about tags or anything else.

Team R&B arrived at the bay and immediately saw two Chinese tourist hurrying about in the native plants. Team R&B realized they were watching as RH76 Kala hauling in and the waves were helping her move over to her zen area.  

Team R&B spoke to the tourist and asked them to not step on the native plants. One of  them was the same one from the other morning, who was making Kala bark.

Team R&B went back two more times during the day. Kala was still there on site, but had moved over to the rocks to hide. 

While in the area they spotted two seals foraging near a small boat. One was a clean female who they ID'd as RH48 Lei Ola. The other seal with her was a male who they ID'd as R3CX Nalu.

They talked to the lifeguard who said the school of fish out there is big and the seals have been coming to feed for over a month. He said there were sharks as well, just reef sharks, white tips and today jelly fish. The lifeguard noted that the seals never haul out of there anymore, they just come to eat.

While on the road they saw a seal at Makaha so they pulled over. There was a green male who looks like he is ready molt. They saw one tag that say W... they weren't sure, but after checking with the posse they believe this male is RW02 PvKauai.

Rabbit Island

RH76

RH48

R3CX

Lei Ola and Nalu

RW02