October 2, 2024 Wednesday's Dailies

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

The NOAA team visited Rabbit Island today in hopes of bleaching some seals, but the seals did not cooperate.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:59 to 1:42 pm and there were three seals seen.

The NOAA team viewed RT19 on the Lanikai side of LPB. The weaner left shortly after.

While the team was on LPB, two seals hauled out amongst the NOAA kayaks.

An Unknown Male hauled out directly down from the 3BS and about 25 feet from one of the kayaks. The UM was sub-adult to small adult size, new coat, light gray male belly and no tags. Marilyn noted some scars on the ventral and it is possible this seal is R416.

What turned out to be R7AF hauled out at SRI: sub-adult size, old coat, brown male belly and two red tags. He appears to have a scar above his left eye. 

Both the UM and R7AF were too alert for the NOAA team to get bleaches on them. So the team will have to try another day.

Team R&B started the day at the bay and while watching the dolphins they spotted a seal swimming in the pod. Unfortunately they didn't get a picture.  The seal went from the open sea to the bay where people were swimming. No one knew the seal was there.

One  adult with a green and one clean coat seal were out there again. They suspect it was R3CX Nalu and RH48 Lei Ola who have been

together out there recently. They stayed at the site for three hours but no seals hauled out.

Team R&B headed over to another west side location that they have avoided for a while. They spotted a seal and made their way over. They were surprised to see not just one but four seals. There was Miss Kala RJ76 and RG32 who was hoping to get her attention.

To the right of Kala by a pond was RM31 Kai resting on the rocks. 

On the lower rocks was Kekoa Alii RK22/K23 (formerly tagged RK72). The burlap from the sat tag is falling off, but the plastic part still seems to be attached.

Next stop at Kahe they only found RL20 Kalua. He was alone on the rocks looking quite green and plump.

Team R&B decided to make the trek out to Ka'ena West. They found one seal Miss R604, she was alone. Apparently this was the time when she needed to relieve herself by pooping and peeing.

Rabbit Island

UU

dolphins

RH76

RG32

RM31

RK22

RL20

R604

October 1, 2024 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:00 to 2:22 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

When she first arrived there was only one seal on shore. Between 1BS and 2BS was a small seal that she believes to be weaner RT19: small size, light male, belly and two red tags. He seems a little smaller than she expected.

A short time later two seals hauled out between 3BS and SRI:

Weaner RT90 Manapua: large weaner size, light male belly and two red tags.

Sub-adult Male: sub-adult size, older coat, greenish-brown male belly and two red tags.

At 1:54 pm the S/M entered the water while RT90 stayed on shore.

At 2:03 pm, the S/M hauled out to RT19. A very short time later an Adult Male joined RT19 and the S/M/ The A/M was adult size, dark

gray male belly and two red tags. Then shortly after the three seals entered the water and moved in the Makapuu direction. Marilyn lost site of them.

Team R&B started their day at Pokau where there were two seals. RM31 Kai was resting on the left side. Then there was Kala RH76 alone on the edge of the rocks.

They spotted two seal foraging close to shore by the camp. The sealswere fighting at times. They identified the greenish adult seal as Nalu R3CX and the large seal with a clean coat as RH48 Lei Ola.

They also spotted  turtle with its head above the water.

Next they saw a very large female at guardrails. They could see she had tags but really didn't show  much else. They did see she had white nails, and that when they realized it was RL70 Leina. She is looking

fat and beautiful. They were thrilled to see her since its been a long time.

Let's just say Team R&B had a fantastic seal day. Their next stop at Kahe they spotted RL20 Kalua on the rocks. What really delighted them was next to him was RK72 Kekoa Alii who they haven't seen in quite some time. He is looking green and a healthy weight. They could see the burlap and glue from the sat tag are still on his body. 

They were also treated with the dolphins at play and spotting the turtles onshore from afar.

Rabbit Island

RH76

RM31

RH48

R3CX

RL70

RL20

RK72

RK72 & RL20

turtles

dolphins