03/10/2022 Thursday's Dailies

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

Team T&D hiked out to the point with Lesley. Their first find was RL98 Lina. Her cc bite has healed up nicely. 

Next find was KG54 Huaka'i in the same spot they saw her last week. Perhaps her favorite spot? 

Then there was RN58 Luana, she is looking nice and quite plump.

Kami RL74 was an easy find with her silver coloring on the lava rocks. So much for being camouflaged.

Their next find were two seals in the same location. Squinty R330 was half in the water and Kiane R604 was on the flats in a small tidepool.  They were both staying cool in the water since it was hot out there today. R604 is a pretty seal with lots of cc scars. 

On their way back they saw a seal keeping Luana company. They ID'd her companion as RW02 PvKauai.

Team R&B started out early at a west side location. They were surprised to seal already hauled out on

high rocks and was hidden. It took them a while to get an ID. Finally the seal moved and flipped over and they recognized R3CU. His scars and sharkbite scar were visible. He was really dry, so he had been there for awhile, maybe sometime during the night.

All of a sudden a little seal came by and entered the small cave. It took a while for the seal to come out and when it did they were able to see it was RP84 Pe'ekai.  He cautiously hauled in and stayed on lower rocks.

Team R&B got word of a seal hauled out at one of the busier location, so they went to check it out.

There was Lefty RG28 alone and getting slammed by the waves. They got two signs and put them out and advised people to stay back and five the seal some room. There were some folks who passed by and were very quiet walking fast and not stopping. Then there were the folks that didn't care. 

Team R&B called the hotline and waited. A volunteer finally arrived and she put out signs. Two on Waianae side and three on Honolulu side. 

While watching Lefty they heard a tourist say there was another seal over there. Team R&B went to the rocks to see and sure enough there was a seal. Not just any seal, it was their beloved Benny RE74, resting peacefully on rocks, alone and looking healthy.

Two folks they had spoken to earlier walked up to Benny. This certainly rubbed Team R&B the wrong way so they yelled out to step back. Thankfully they did.  The whole family gathered and Team R&B told them all about Benny.  They also told them how in the past he use to come looking for our beloved Pohaku, no longer with us.

KG54

RL98

RN58

R330

R604

RL74

RW02 and RN58

R3CU

RP84

RG28

Benny

03/09/2022 Wednesday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕  I also have an addition to yesterdays report from Team R&B. Not sure, but I think gremlins are messing with my email.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:04 to 3:24 and there were a total of four seals today.

When she first started viewing there were only two seals on the waterfront rocks about 30 feet Makapuu side of 3BS. They were joined by a third seal soon after. The trio included:

U/A: appears to be adult size, never got a look at the belly or rear flippers. This seal pretty much stayed in a tidepool among the waterfront rocks.

S/F: subadult size, somewhat greenish female belly and at least one tag but most likely two.

S/M: he was the late arriver and he galumphed behind the other two seals and settled. Subadult size, light yellow male belly and at least one tag.

Then nearer the SRI was an adult female by herself. A/F: adult size, gray female belly and two tags. There weren't any obvious markers.

In yesterdays news from Team R&B, when they did a recheck at one of the sites. RL20 Kalua was still on site and R3CX Nalu had joined him. At one point RL20 decided to leave and as he did he vomited in the water. Guess something didn't agree with him. When Nalu R3CX woke up and was alone.

Team R&B started their morning by finding a seal on the rocks snoozing. It took them a minute before they recognized RL70 Leina. She must have been there for a while since she was completely dry. They noticed she had a small nick on her right eye.  They also noticed a spot on her lower lip. Not sure what it is, if its an infection spot but they wanted to make note of it. Other than that she seemed perfectly fine.  On their recheck later in the day she was no longer there.

Heading over to tracks they were thrilled to find Kaale RH32 on shore snoozing. They gave him a good look over, body condition looks good even though he was covered in sand.  He looks good, and it was nice to get a look at him hauled out.

Team R&B got a text that there was a seal hauled out at Secrets so they let posse pal Amy know and she went to check.  She reported two seals and put up a couple of signs.  Unfortunately the signs that Team R&B had left on site were taken again.   On the rocks was the fat handsome boy Kekoa Alii RK72. RG28 Lefty was hauled out on the sand.  Team R&B headed out at noon and Amy stayed until close to 6 pm. Both critters finally left the site.  BIG KUDOS TO AMY!!!

Amy did send an email with a couple of photos, informing me the boys were there from 10 am to 6 pm and slept soundly for the day. 

Off to another west side location and they immediately saw their boy Pe'ekai RP84 hauling up on high rocks. Typically this is where the big boys haul out, but today its Pe'ekai's spot. Too cute!

RL08 was to the right at seal inlet. He was in a deep deep snooze.

They were also treated to a couple of whales popping up.

Rabbit Island

RL20 $ R3CX from Tuesday

RL20

Nalu R3CX

RL70 Leina

RH32 Kaale

RK72 Kekoa

RG28 Lefty

Lefty and Kekoa

Pe'ekai RP84

RL08

WHALES