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Monday, October 23, 2023

October 23, 2023 Monday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit ISland from 1:30 to 3:05 and there were six seals during that time.

About 20 feet from the 1BS was RK24 Bruno/Wawamalu: small adult size, new coat, light gray male belly an two red tags. Marilyn only had a rear flipper view of him today.

About15 feet from RK24 was Adult Male 1 : adult size, old coat, brown belly and two red tags.

About 50 feet in the Makapuu direction was Adult Male 2 : large adult size, brown male belly with lots of nicks an scars on the ventral side and two red tags.

Another 50 feet in the Makapuu direction was a Juvenile Female 1 : juvenile size, old coat, two red tags, and a gray female belly.

Between 3BS and SRI were two seals:

Juvenile Female 2 : juvenile size, newer coat, light female belly and two red tags. She might be a weaner, but looked to be be too large.

J/F 2 was with a Subadult Male: smaller subadult size, old coat with a fair amount of green and two red tags. The two seals entered the water together about 1:35 pm and played for about 20 minutes in the water and then hauled out back where they started.

Tammy is visiting the Big Island and has been out several days looking for seals and always coming up empty. Well today was her lucky day! It was a big beautiful female tagged R408.

Hope Miss Tammy sees a couple more seals before returning to Oahu.

Team R&B first stop at the bay. They were happy to see RH76 Kala alone and resting. She is looking good as she should a fat momma! (just an expression, I do not know if she is pregnant).

Team R&B noted the weather was strange, windy, chilly and gloomy skies. It looked like there would be a downpour, but it didn't happen.

At the outfall they saw an adult seal foraging. They couldn't make an ID, other than adult size, green coat and was in a hurry leaving the outfall. It went near a group of divers and swam right passed then and was out of sight.

Just after 10 am they spotted a seal haul out from a distance. They could not make an ID from their location so they hurried down to the area. There on shore was the lovely R604.... boy oh boy she is a large Marge.

At another west side location which was their last stop for the day. They found RG28 Lefty inland resting alone.

Rabbit Island

R408 Big Island Female

RH76

Unknown Adult

R604

RG28

Friday, October 1, 2021

10/01/2021 Friday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Lesley, Marilyn, Team T&D and Team R&B💕. Lesley's Ka'ena update is part two of the dailies. PLEASE see part three for Marilyn's Rabbit Island update.

Today was Team T&Ds last day of looking for seals on the Big Island. They were rewarded with four seals. First find was RW34 Waimanu, who is one large seal. Its really amazing she can float. Next there was RL50 Kaulana. After walking for a bit they came across Hiwahiwa PH1. Their last find of the day was R408.

Team R&B found RL70 Leina early on. She was on lower rocks snoozing and scratching. To their surprise they noticed she is about 25% molted.

At the outfall they found three seals foraging all over. There were at least 40 fishers there today. They saw Kaale RH32 was there but didn't stay very long. Aukai was catching fish left and right. Also was RN14 Kalani getting his fill. They did see a seal on the rocks resting. It was Ka'ale RH32, but Team R&B couldn't get to the area because of the dogs. Ka'ale wasn't disturbed and resting peacefully.

They made it out to KoOlina and found a zone set up around RW22 Kolohe. They were concerned aas he is looking quite thin and has another nose wound. There were a couple of volunteers on site.

Of course one of their stops was to the bay where the green goblin RL20 was foraging. The kid is like the eveready bunny.

At a west side beach they thought there was seal but it was just a rock. Then much to their surprise they saw RL42 Leia and a freshly molted R3CX Nalu. They were resting peacefully together.

They had been searching for Benny all day. They were stopping every

possible location coming up empty. Last stop late in the day they checked paradise cove. There he was on shore!! He's still hooked and there is line on his body. A luau was taking place and only a few people approached. Team R&B explained what was going on so they left him alone. They stayed with Benny until sunset.

PH1