December 10, 2024 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:35 to 2:10 pm and there were seven seals seen during that time.

There were three seals on LPB that moved around some:

Adult Male 1: adult size, new coat, 100% molted, medium gray male belly, did not see tags.

Adult Female: robust adult size, tannish gray female belly, two red tags and upper/lower neck scar.

Between 1BS and 2BS was Adult Male 2: adult size, light gray male belly, two red tags and about 99% molted. 

Between 3BS and SRI were two seals:

Sub-adult Male: sub-adult size, tan male belly and two red tags.

Adult Male 3: adult size, dorsal older brown coat with mid-dorsal pit scar, about 40% molted with a gray chest, did not see tags.

Way out on RRB was RT19: weaner size, older coat and light yellowish tan male belly and two red tags. 

Team R&B started their day at Pokai. They were thrilled and surprised to see RG28 Lefty there. He still is hooked with a line.  With him to his right was Miss Kala RH76. Team R&B noted they were a little worried  about the line trailing as Lefty moved on the rocks.  But they were happy he left yoks.

At the outfall they had been looking out over the water for quite awhile. Then they saw splashing and hind flippers in the air. There were multiple seals, but all they could ID was RM31 Kai. 

They got a call of a seal at another location so they left, but planned on returning.

Team R&B arrived at Makaha and saw a seal on shore. It was RW02 PvKauai, being visited by many folks. Lifeguard did their best to keep people away and had put out some flags.  The surf was pounding, boards were flying all about.  

Then Team R&B happen to look farther out and noticed another seal hauling up by a wall. 

They could see the area was too rough to get to, so they took some photos from afar. The seal was RP28 Wakea arriving. He got hit by the waves, so he moved himself all the way to a wall.

Team R&B went to Kahe where they found three seals. These were the seals they had seen earlier in the outfall. They were all on the rocks:

RN14 Kalani, looking big and green. They haven't seen him in a while. Then there was RM31 Kai with RL20 Kalua. All three were pretty close together.

And that wasn't all! They spotted another seal tucked away inland. They were able to ID R617.

Rabbit Island

RG28

RH76

U/Us

RM31

RW02

RP28

RN14 - RL20 - RM31

R617