May 6, 2025 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:52 to 2:28 pm and there were seven seals on island today,

MO3 and her pup PO3 spent much of their time snoozing on LPB. PO3 is getting bigger by the day.  PO3 ultimately started nursing and was still in that mode when Marilyn left.

RF34 Pua and her pup PO4 were between 3BS and SRI having a nursing session when Marilyn arrived. PO4 was mostly hidden behind mom. Then the pup must have gone into snooze mode because Marilyn did not see PO4 again.

About 60 feet further in the Makapuu direction on the rock flats Lanikai side of SRI were two seals:

Adult Male: adult size, dark coat, dark male belly, unsure about tags.

Close to the Adult Male was an Adult Female: adult size, mottled golden brown female belly and at least one tag. There may have been a scar on her upper chest.

Scanning the shoreline at 2:13 pm, Marilyn spotted a mostly hidden Unknown Unidentified near the entrance to the RRB surge channel. Marilyn never saw anything but the top of its head and the back of the seal.

Marilyn got word from Gamma Gayle that Temp25 was in the neighborhood. Marilyn went to check it out and hung out with him for a bit. TempN25 is a large juvenile/small sub-adult with a make belly, no tags, scare behind and above the LFF, applied N25 bleaches in front of rear flippers and another mid-dorsal. He seems healthy.

Team R&B studied the water at pokai for quite awhile. Finally they spotted a seal foraging on Rest Camp side of the bay. It was R3CX Nalu foraging all on his own. There were lots of fish for him to fill up on. A boobie bird hovered over, Team R&B got a pic of the bird with a fish in its mouth, all while Nalu was passing by.  Nalu never hauled out. They went back later int he day and he was still out there alone foraging.

Next they found RL20 Kalua at kahe on the rocks. He had a long line coming from the right side of his mouth, and there was no hook visible. The line was on his hind flipper along his belly, down to his hind flippers on the rocks.  A volunteer arrived and Team R&B showed her where the seal was. Shortly after the volunteer arrived, RL20 rolled in the water. It looked like he was going to haul out again, but then decided to leave.  RL20 headed back towards the outfall area once again.  Team R&B commented they have lost count on how many hooks he has had.

The later part of the day the dolphins were going crazy. They look like they're having fun all the time.

Rabbit Island

TempN25

boobie

R3CX

RL20

dolphins