07/22/2022 Friday's Dailies

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

I met up with Tammy today to see Rocky and PO8 today. While there we saw Melody, Dianna and Gamma Gayle. That's the nice thing about pupping sites, you often bump into people you know!

Kaiwi was on site and Gayle had spent most of her time with her, since 99% of the people were more interested in the pup. Tammy and I are kind of guilty, when we finally went to walk over Kaiwi was leaving.  Seeing her from a distance she really looks good with her new coat.

Rocky and PO8 had just come in from a swim, the kid ate and went into snooze mode.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:30 to 3:30 and there were four seals on island today.

In the back Lanikai side of LPB was weaner PO7 Mahina partially hidden behind the rocks.

Closer to the waterfront on the Lanikai side of LPB in a depression was weaner RQ76 Malama. She made a few flipper flexes just enough to let Marilyn know she was there.

There wasn't much activity from either weaner today.

Between Middle Cliff and 3BS was the molding Adult Female who has been in that location for most of the past week. Her molt is about 70% with most of her ventral molted and close to half of her dorsal side molted.

Out on the rock flats between SRI and RRB was RK37 based on Marilyn best estimation. Subadult female, two red tags, newly molted. RK27 did not show her left side so her NB was not visible.

Team R&B arrived at a west side site and there were people in the

water. On shore was one woman sitting in a chair and a seal hauling out in front of her.  It was RP84 Pe'ekai, so Team R&B went into education and outreach mode. Most people were respectable, the others eh!  They made a stick zone and then a boy went over and removed the sticks.  I am sure this was beyond frustrating.

Next stop they found a lovely fully molted female. Leia RL42 was alone on the rocks.

Off to the next location, there were signs up at the Honolulu end of Zablans with lots and lots of people.

Two seals were there on shore, RG28 Lefty id'd by cookie scars and bleached left flipper.  He was in the company of a female that they just couldn't ID. She was an adult good weight, green, She had scars under belly by nipple. Head scars, one between eyes and other above left eye. No tags. Her right eye was opaque in color, milky white. She seemed okay, healthy.  They got lots of pictures of her, so hopefully someone at NOAA will recognize her.

Kaiwi leaving

PO8 and Rocky

Kaiwi

Rocky & PO8

Pe'ekai

RL42

Lefty & UF

UF

RABBIT ISLAND

7/20/2022 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Team R&B arrived at one of the west side beaches and while looking around, they heard seal fighting.

They ran over to see two seals! One seal is very clean then it took off, it was reported as a U/U. (they think its RL42). 

The second seal who was fighting with the U/U was RG28 Lefty. They saw his applied bleach on his side. RG28 took off going westerly.

Two men saw them looking at the beach intently, told them a seal just passed them at Yoks. They just missed it.

They then did the Ka'ena West Trek hoping to dind someone out there, but they were skunked.

After their Ka'ena West Trek they saw a little green seal on shore from afar. They hurried over and on shore were several folks checking out the little seal. One had to a bit closer, Team R&B didn't say anything but the couple must have felt their thoughts.

There was RP84 Pe'ekai still hanging out on Oahu. He wasn't there earlier when they passed by.  He looks so small compared to the adult seals they see. He is fine, didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

They were thrilled to see Pe'ekai since they hadn't seen him since the big waves began.

As they headed out from spending time with Pe'ekai they saw working crew clearing all the sand that the waves had brought. Looks like this is why the area was closed the other day. 

They also saw a big turtle on shore with some dude hanging close by.

They found RL20 Kalua at the bay on the rocks. He was alone and snoozing. He was probably tuckered out fighting the big waves the past few days.

Team R&B did one last spot to find two seals basking peacefully. There was Kaale RH32, the Big

Bumbucha. He was to the left of RL08.  Rl08 moved to the shallows to cool off. (Team R&B wanted to do the same, it was so hot out there).

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from Makai Pier from about 12:15 to 2:00 pm. Kilali Gibson of NOAA joined her from about 1:15 to 2:00 pm and there were ultimately four seals on island today.

Initially there were two seals on island:

Between Middle Cliff and 3BS was the molting Adult Female (AF): adult to subadult size, female, two red tags and appears about 25% molted (most of the upper chest). 

About 30 feet Makapuu side of the 3BS was RK37 Hui'a who has been hanging around RI during her molt and now post-molt: subadult size, light gray female belly, two red tags, and nb on lower left side.

After going back out on the lanai at 12:55 pm after the rain squall, Marilyn saw that weaner RQ76 had hauled out from the Lanikai side of LPB.

Just as they started viewing after Kilali arrived, the newly weaned PO7 hauled out and moved up close

to RQ76 at about 1:15 pm. This is the first time Marilyn has seen PO7 without mom RL12 Aukai. PO7's tag on his LRF is clearly visible. Marilyn isn't sure if PO7 was weaned yesterday or today. PO7 is 44 days old today.

Although PO7 and RQ76 are only one day apart in age, you can see the dramatic difference in size between RQ76 who was weaned at 33 days and PO7 who was weaned at 43-44 days. RQ76 went back into the water about 1:45 pm.

Lefty RG28

Unknown/Unidentified

RP84 Pe'ekai

RL20

RH32 Kaale

RL08

Rabbit Island