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View From Here - Hawaii Travel Blog - Hawaiian Monk Seal

Total Number of Entries - 59

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Sunrise Seal: 9 Days Old

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 4/8/2009

Destination: Kauai

Here the Hawaiian monk seal pup is nine days old, and that frothy white mustache is milk. For the first five to seven weeks of its life, the pup’s sole source of food is its mother’s milk. While it fattens up, though, mom shrivels up.
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Hope for Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 3/9/2009

Destination: Kauai

Did I have any meetings today? Any events to attend? I do not like to leave my home office when it rains like this. I do not like to drive through that mud puddle, deepening the ruts in my driveway. When I sat at my desk and checked my calendar, I discovered no necessary out-of-the-house appointments. Good, I thought. Then, the phone rang. It was Wendy with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Conservation Hui. Someone had reported a seal at the end of Aliomanu Road–down the street from me on my home island of Kaua’i.
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Hawaiian Monk Seals, the Spirit of Service and a New President

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 1/21/2009

Destination: Kauai

The cheers on the Mall had just hushed over my television when the phone rang. It was still early in the morning in Hawaii, and President Obama had already completed his inauguration speech. I expected to hear my best friend, calling from Kansas, another state with ties to the new president, and I was ready to quote from the president’s speech. Our patchwork heritage is a strength. Quiet force of progress. New era of responsibility. A man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

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Monk Seal Update: It’s a Girl!

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 12/10/2008

Destination: Kauai

Good news on the monk seal front: The pup born on November 20, 2008 on Kauai’s south shore is a girl. This is good news, because with the dwindling rate of Hawaiian Monk Seals throughout the Hawaiian archipelago, the more females we have, the more babies we’ll have.

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Meet Nukaau, the Hawaiian Monk Seal

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 12/3/2008

Destination: Oahu

Nukaau was born on Laysan Island in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands in 1981 and was brought to the Waikiki Aquarium as a two-year-old. He’s a big boy. Or, rather, a big, old man. He is now nearly 28 years old, and he measures almost 8 feet in length and weighs between 380 and 420 pounds.

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Hawaiian Monk Seal: Two Weeks Old

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 11/26/2008

Destination: Kauai

Our pup is two weeks old. It swims. It squawks. It nurses. It sleeps. Ah, the life of an Hawaiian monk seal.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal: One Week Old

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 11/19/2008

Destination: Kauai

Here, our newest member of the Hawaiian monk seal family is 8 days old. In the first week, the pup does not stray far from mom–nor mom from the pup. As the pup circumnavigates mom, it strengthens its flippers. As it calls out to mom when its hungry, it strenthens it lungs. Both efforts prepare it for its first swim. Mom introduced the pup to the shallow water this week.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal Pup Born on Kaua’i

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 11/11/2008

Destination: Kauai

One year ago Monday, the Laysan albatross arrived at the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. They come from all corners of the globe to breed and raise their chicks. Last year, they started arriving on November 10^th. This year, they have yet to arrive.But we do have another exciting arrival on the island: A Hawaiian monk seal pup was born in the early morning hours of Saturday, November 8.
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Monk Seals, Hydrozoan Polyps and a T.V.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 10/20/2008

Destination: Hawaii Island, Kauai, Maui, Oahu

Yesterday was the bi-annual Hawaiian Monk Seal Count. Volunteers canvassed beaches around the state between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. searching for all the endangered marine mammals that they could find. It was my third count. My zone consisted of two connecting beaches–Aliomanu and Anahola–on Kauai’s northeast coast, like they have for the past two seal count days. I was hoping this time would be different.
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