May 30, 2025 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:44 to 3:28 pm and there were three seals seen during that time.

Initially the only seal visible when she arrived was R416 Makali'i on LPB: smaller adult size, light yellow male belly and several distinctive scar.  Marilyn thinks he is the AF she reported yesterday due to the pit scar on the base of the LFF. 

Marilyn kept looking for the weaners but did not see Weaner #1 until 1:52 pm when it hauled out on the Lanikai side of the beach at Middle Cliff. She only got a partial view of the weaner and couldn't determine its sex.

Weaner #2 hauled out among the water front rocks between 1BS and 2BS at 1:56 pm. The weaner moved among the rocks for quite a while. At one point the weaner tried to moved up the berm, but the sand caved in and the pup tumbled over. Marilyn only for a partial view of the weaner's ventral and could not decide if it was a male or female so it was labeled as Weaner #2.

Team R&B started the day at pokai where they found one seal. It was RM31 Kai at the zen area resting alone. 

They were batting zero again so they left the area and found dolphins out and about having a blast.

Since Team R&B weren't having much luck on their side of the island they decided to head out to the other side and check out the pup activity.

They were thrilled to finally see their first pup of the year. Aw a real cutie, fat and active. Luana RN58 and PO9.

While checking out mom and pup they saw a seal hauling in towards the site. It was fast and landed briefly, looking at Luana RN58. The seal gave a grunt and took off. They were able to ID him by the cc scar on his back, scar on right of body near flipper and scar on the right side of his face. It was RK36 (Kauai Kolohe).  Mom and pup

were facing the water and went to sleep.

Next they headed over to a different area where they found RL98 Lina and PO6. The pup is fat and was busy nursing. There were signs up but the area wasn't fenced off. There were visitors out checking mom and pup and a volunteer educating the folks.

Rabbit Island

RM31

dolphin

RN58 & PO9

RL98 & PO6

RK36