June 28, 2025 Saturday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:44 am to 3:01 pm and there were six seals seen during that time.

Initially there was just RL12 Aukai and PO12 on LPB not far from the surge channel. Marilyn was able to RL12's two rear flipper tags and a scar on top of her head. She saw PO12 nurse for a good long while.

At 1:10 pm Kala RH76 and PO11 hauled out from the LPB surge channel. Mom and pup seem healthy. Marilyn did see one nursing session. Later PO11 headed up shore and behind RL12 and her pup. Soon  RH76 moved up to her pup. The moms looked at each other, but there were no interactions.

About 12:40 pm, Marilyn spotted one of the weaners playing in the tide pools between 3BS and SRI. At 2:26 pm, the weaner hauled out of the SRI channel and went into snooze mode. Marilyn never saw the ventral of the weaner so she couldn't determine if it was RU24 or RH38. Only one weaner was seen today.

At 1:28 pm, RK37 Hali'a hauled out on the rocks on the Makapuu side of the SRI channel, just as she has done for the past two days. At 2:44 pm, Marilyn saw that RK37 had left her original spot and at 2:53 pm she hauled out on the 1BS side of LPB. That is when Marilyn could see her two red tags and her lower left side nb which confirmed her ID.

Team R&B started their day with a frustrating situation. While watching the dolphins there were boaters out, towing people in a rubber rafter through the area where the dolphins were. The lifeguards had announced several times to keep their distance from the dolphins.  Needless to say its frustrating, and upsetting to see this happen and their ignoring the warnings.

From afar they spotted a sub-adult seal on shore at tracks. The seal was resting, but there were people stopping and checking the seal out.

Team R&B weren't able to get over to the area as parking was a nightmare today. The seal was reported as an unknown sub-adult since they could make an ID.

Finally they spotted a seal at Kahe from afar. They headed over to the area and found RL20 Kalua. HE was snoozing in his pond with a sea urchin around him.

Rabbit Island

dolphins

unknown sub-adult

RL20