June 28, 2026 Yesterday's News 6/27/26

News from Marilyn's Ka'ena Point visit on Saturday:

I hiked/rode the Ka'ena Point trail with a friend yesterday. The weather was warm and windy. I did encounter rain on the drive to KP, but not while in the KP park.

We saw seven HMS during our trip.

From near the parking lot looking toward the point, we could RV36 E'eno playing in one of the inlets. Apparently he had been in the inlet near the parking lot earlier, but probably decided to move away because of all the tents, people and music in the parking lot.

Within the NAR, R330 "Squinty" was snoozing among rocks and not showing us much, but I did see his male ventral with mid-ventral small nb. He was just moving into a channel when we returned to check on him on the way out.

RL47 "Kamakana" was out draped over a rock in the pools Mokuleia side of Ka'ena's pool. He is fairly green and we could see his newer CC bite, although he did not show us his rear flipper tags. He also entered the water due to the rising tide when we saw him on the hike out.

On the rocks in the middle of the main pool at the point was R420 Kaipo: older mottled coat with some green, male belly, superficial partial CC scar forward of his penial hole and a deeper scar on the right side of the penial hole. He gave us a fully sprawled male view.

There was a HMS swimming in one of the channels in the NAR that we believe was RL08 "BamBamSquarePants" based on the visible CC scars we could see. We saw him head in the "runway" direction, but never saw him hauled out.

We visited RL42 Leia and her pup PO12 twice during the day. Mom and pup seem to be doing fine. PO12 was able to follow mom when the latter moved up the beach. The pup still has part of its umbilical cord.

RL42 & PO12

RL08

R420

RL47

R330

RV36