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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

June 12, 2024 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:15 to 3:25 pm and seems there were maybe seven seals. Marilyn noted it was a little confusing for her while she was viewing in that she did not knowingly see RL12 and PO3.

A seal hauled out on the rock flats on the Lanikai side of LPB at about 2:06 pm. This seal is labeled as Adult Female 1: adult size, distinctive mottle gray female belly, unsure about tags. This is a seal Marilyn has seen before.

There was a Juvenile Female in the middle of LPB; larger juvenile size, light grayish yellow female

belly and two red tags.

At 1:49 pm an Unknown Adult hauled out briefly between the JF and 1BS, seemed to eye the JF, the reentered the water and was not knowingly seen again.

RH76 Kala and her pup PO8 were in the same tide pool in the middle cliff area where they mostly hid yesterday. Finally later in the afternoon both Kala and pup galumphed out of the pool and were more easily seen. Both mom and pup seem to be doing fine. Kala N77 applied bleach was visible.

At 2:41 pm, Marilyn became aware of a seal mostly hidden behind the rocks on the Makapuu side of the Middle Cliff beach. It may have been there earlier and not seen. This seal being reported as an Unknown Unknown.

Not long after Marilyn started viewing a large (pregnant or nursing) female hauled out between 3BS and SRI. At first Marilyn thought it was RL12 but she did not see PO3. She is labeling this seal as Adult Female 2 because she never saw Aukai's applied N13 bleach. This seal had a sand-covered female belly and two red tags.

Team R&B started their day at the outfall where they spotted RL20 Kalua. He was seen in the outfall

foraging on akule.

Well things were about to get interesting. Team R&B saw a rowboat close to the jetty with a lot of net in it. Suddenly a seal appeared by the boar following it. The seal mouthed the paddle and then to their shock RL20 jumped up and tried to bite the net in the boat. This is deeply concerning, more because the little buggah is going to get himself into trouble. Team R&B reported the incident.

After all the excitement they left and headed over to tracks. There they found the lovely KG54. She is molting and seems to be going along quickly as they noted she is about 85% molted. She'll be looking gorgeous in no time.

When they arrived at Nimitz they were happy to see R303 BG on shore with R407 Kawika. They were resting peacefully and initially people were respectful. But people kept coming and R407 began to move around but stayed by BG.

Their last find was at the cliffs. The seal was hidden behind the rocks and despite their studying the seal for a while they had nothing to go on for an ID. So they reported this find as an Unknown Adult.

In between their many stops today they did get to spend a little time watching the dolphins play in a couple different spots.

Rabbit Island

RL20

KG54

R303

R407 & R303

R407

Unknown Adult

dolphins

Monday, November 13, 2023

November 13, 2023 Monday's Dailies

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

They started their day at the outfall and there were the boats out with their nets going for Akule. There were two seals out there stealing fish. Team R&B ID'd Rl08 and R3CX, they stayed and watched from 9:55 to 12:30. The fishers caught so much they had to take scoops of fish out of the laynet because it was too heavy. Team R&B called the hotline to report the seals. Nalu R3CX had been onshore at tracks but went to pig out on the fish in the nets.

Nalu returned to tracks and hauled out, probably needed to rest with a full belly. A volunteer arrived to ID the seal and left. She said there was nothing to be done, the fishers have the right to fish. Hmmm how about keeping an eye on the seals to make sure none of them get entangled.

At another west side location they were happy to find RL20 Kalua. He was alone and resting peacefully, no hooks or new markers.

Funny I would have thought he'd be at the outfall stealing fish.

Last stop they spotted a seal on the rocks resting peacefully. It was the lovely RH48 Lei Ola, who was about to barf. Team R&B knew the signs, her belly shook, her body moving forward, similar to a dog thats going to barf. And she did, full force, yellow bile. Poor Lei Ola, she barfed twice and then she rested.

R3CX

R3CX at the net

RL08 stealing fish

R3CX back on shore

RL20

RH48

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:15 to 3:10 and there were only two seals (probably weaners) on island.

Alone and partially hidden on LPB was weaner A: weaner size and color, did not see rear flippers or clear view of belly.

Soon after Marilyn started viewing she spotted Weaner B on the rock flats of LPB. she then moved up one of the channels and appeared to be eating something. After a short while she reentered the LPB surge channel. Shortly after 2 pm Marilyn spotted her trying to scale the berm in the middle of LPB. Poor thing tried several times and failed. She reentered the water and at 2:30 Marilyn found her hauled out between the 1BS and 2BS.

She appeared to be playing with a large branch, then rolled over showed her belly and then went into snooze mode.

Marilyn got a text shortly after 4 that a seal was at the Waimanalo end of Sandy Beach, so she heade down. The seal had signs around her, and Marilyn ID'd Right Spot R016. She has an applied bleach N6 and her natural bleach spot.

R016 Right Spot: adult size, female belly, no tags. She seems thin hoping this old gal is done pupping. She weaned a pup last September and doesn't seem to be back to her adult female weight.

Melody went on an adventure today and decided to check in on PO6 & RL42 and hoping to also find PO7 and RN58. Interestingly her first find was Luana RN58 and her pip PO7. There were on the beach both snoozing. A little bit later PO7 started nursing and that is when she noticed a seal lurking in the background. She later found out it was male RO40 Kaena. He was a gentleman and did not bother mom and pup, he just went for a swim along the shore.

After all that excitement Melody continued her adventure and as luck

would have it she found Leia RL42 and PO6. Mom and pup were also snoozing (guess that what mom and babies do, eat sleep poop repeat. A little while later both Leia and PO6 went for a very long swim and went far out for about an hour or more. Once they hauled out they nursed and snoozed. After all that Melody called it a good seal day.

Team R&B noticed early on the boats were in the area today, laying nets in spite of a couple of seals in the nets, dolphins hanging out by the next and boobie's diving into the nets.

Their old eagle eyes spotted two seals on the rocks to the right, pretty well hidden. After a while they they were able to ID R3CX Nalu with RH76 Kala. Waves got to them and they moved where they could be seen to get an ID.

The seal in the nets was none other than the original butt-head Kaale RH32. They weren't able to get a good photo.

Then all "heck" broke loose! The seals were coming in but Kaale RH32 went after RH76 Kala and RM31 Kai joined in the fight for a long round. It was butt-head Kaale who really found it out with Kala jumping on her, she was fighting by tossing her hind flippers high in the air.

They had left the site, but with all that action they decided to go back after a bit to check on how everyone was doing.

NOW RG28 Lefty was with Kala for a short visit. The Lefty joined Kai being very sweet with the kid, but eventually RG28 left.

There were kids around being little jerks to the seals on the rocks. Team R&B kept yelling for them to leave the seals alone. One of their friends came by and called DLNR, and cops but no one came to the site. There was even on dude who took his dog over to the seal, even though the dog was leashed, still not cool.

Rabbit Island Weaners