07/02/2022 Saturday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:15 to 2:05 and there were EIGHT seals on Island today. (although she only has photos of seven).

Most Lanikai direction on LPB was MO6 and PO6. They were initially in the water when she arrived but hauled out onto LPB about 12:23. PO6 then nursed. At some point Marilyn realiszed they had re-entered the water and hauled out again. MO6 is looking thinner.

In the wave wash of LPB was MO7 and PO7. Marilyn observed one nursing session. About 1:00 PO7 entered the water attracting the attention of an adult male who entered the water with Mom and Pup for about 45 minutes.

Further Makapuu direction on LPB was the above mentioned A/M and RK37.

A/M: adult size, dark male belly and at least one red tag.

RK37: subadult size, lighter female belly, two red tags and nb on lower left side.

Closer to the 1BS on LPB was a S/F: subadult to adult size, greenish female belly and two red tags.

The A/M left RK37 to go check out the S/F who was not happy with his attention. Sometime later, the A/M returned to RK37 and then turned his attention to MO7-PO7. This for sure is cruiser male behavior.

Marilyn was on a phone call with DB's brother K.C., a S/M started to haul out to the S/F. But the S/M came charging chasing the S/M back into the water. 

S/M: subadult size, lighter male belly and two red tags. Unfortunately Marilyn didn't get any photos of the interaction.

Team R&B started out very early morning and found R3CX Nalu alone on the rocks. It appeared like he had recently arrived.

They decided to take a westerly route today, since the other sites have no seals for awhile. They spotted another male who turned out to be RH32 Kaale. He was alone snoozing on the rocks. RL42 dumped him after yesterday, his being a butthead.

Their next find was RM31 Kai who was alone. He was snoozing on the rocks with a couple of hermit crabs crawling on him. He would swat them off when they bugged him.

Off to the left was their special boy RP84 Pe'ekai. He was snoozing away and alone. It was a little difficult to get a good photo since he was mostly hidden.

They went to make the Ka'ena West trek but the gates were closed until about 9 AM.  While being out there early they saw some dolphins passing by the area. 

They did the hot hike out and there were skunked not seals.

When they got back to the car they drove along the coast and from the car they spotted  a seal from afar.  They headed over and made another walk in the hot sun to check it out. There was RN14 Kalani.

One of the fishers told them two sharks just passed him, he was shocked to see them.  Team R&B looked but did not see anything.

A friend was in the area and came down to watch over Kalani. All was good until tow ladies came over and initially they were at a good distance, even though Kalani was very alert, rolled over and left the area.

They also saw a large honu land on shore. Not more than 10 minutes people were running over, and the turtle took off.

Rabbit Island

Nalu R3CX

RH32 Kaale

RM31 Kai

RP84 Pe'ekai

dolphins

RN14

Honu

07/01/2022 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:35 to 2:25 and there were five seals on island today. 

When she first arrived she did not see MO6 and PO6. Then about 10 minutes later they hauled out on the Lanikai side of LPB. They were difficult to photograph because there was a lot of wave action and salt spray. When they first hauled out PO6 started nursing. Later they snoozed, and PO6 nursed again. MO6 is beginning to look thin.

MO7 and PO7 were on LPB when she started viewing although PO7 was mostly hidden behind Mom. then about 1pm MO7 & PO7 went into the water for almost an hour before hauling out on LPB again. PO7 started nursing then crawled around MO7's head and went into snooze mode.

Between the 3BS and SRI there was a S/M: subadult size, greenish male belly and two red tags. She did not see scars or markings that would have given a clue.

Team T&D hiked Ka'ena Point and saw a total of six seals today. 

First seal was swimming in the water, luckily they saw the applied bleach! It was RG28 Lefty. 

Next was RW02 PvKauai. But while walking further they saw another seal with RW02. Unfortunately they were not able to get the ID of the critter with RW02.

Ka'ena RO40 was their next find. Sadly as they got to him he was surrounded by five people, all within a few feet of him. And I quote "my only wish was he got up and barked to scare them so they would have fallen in the water" I agree! 

Next seal was R330 Squint. Then they saw another seal come swimming in. It was R3CX Nalu, he and Squinty had a few words and Nalu left.

They looked for RQ24 Mauna but did not see him today. He's probably out exploring as weaners do. 

Also they got to see a Wedge-Tailed Shearwater rotating its egg.

Team R&B were out searching and once again had a very slow day. They got to the bay and found one seal on the rocks. It was Kalua

RL20, looking very green, healthy and chubby. There was nothing out of the ordinary.

Looks like RIMPAC has begun with some very large ships in Hawaiian waters.

Team R&B arrived at the cliffs and at first look saw nothing. As they walked away they could hear the seals arguing loudly. So they ran back looking and looking. Finally they spotted the two seals fighting,

one being none other than butthead Kaale RH32 and RL42 Leia. Poor RL42 was trying all kinds of tricks to get away from Kaale.

She hugged the rocks, he followed. She turned to give a big bark, he loved it.

She tried galumphing on the rocks, he came up with a vengence.

Both would land, Kaale the butthead, blocked her exit. She just laid there quietly. He made sure he kept his eye on her, so she couldn't dump his butt.

Rabbit Island

Lefty

RW02 and U/U

RW02

RO40 

R3CX

R330

RL20 Kalua

RH32 &RL42