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Tuesday, May 5, 2026

May 5, 2026 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn had an appointment in Honolulu this morning so she stopped by Kaimana Beach on her way. The lighting at 9:!5 am wasn't great. RK96 Kaiwi and her pup PO8 were having a nursing session while Marilyn was there. Both seem fine. An Unknown seal was cruising the shore, Marilyn was unable to stick around to get an ID. (RK24 has been seen in the area on Sunday).

The beach is entirely fenced off except for a small section near the

wall down from the walkway and along the side of the Natatorium.

After her appoint Marilyn went and viewed Rabbit Island from 11:58 am to 1:27 pm. There were eight seals seen during her viewing session.

Not far from each other near the LPB channel were four seals:

MO3 and her pup PO3. Marilyn saw at least one feed. They later moved a little further up the beach.

Adult Female: large adult size, female based on yesterdays' sighting.

She moved around a fair amount, but did not seem to challenge MO3 and PO3 or the nearly by Unknown Adult.

The Unknown Adult was small adult to sub-adult size, an apparent scar on the right rear side, no info on tags or sex.

When Marilyn first starting viewing she could not find RK38 and PO4. At 12:27 pm they hauled out on the Makapuu side of Middle Cliff beach. PO4 nursed and then went partially behind mom. Marilyn could easily see RK38's neck scar when she was nursing the pup.

Between the 3BS and SRI was RF34 Pua and her pup PO5. Pua stayed mostly hidden among the waterfront rocks, but Marilyn did see her right rear scar. PO5 did at least one nursing session.

At the mouth of the SRI channel was a sub-adult/adult size seal that turned out to be R416 Makali'i: sub-adult size, no tags, male belly with dark scars and patches, pit scar near LFF.

At 12:59 pm a Juvenile Female hauled out of the SRI channel and moved up the beach. Larger juvenile size, old coat with dark patches under the eyes and light female belly with some green. No info on tags. Later R416 moved up the beach and rested near the JF.

Team R&B started on the west side. They were happy to find Miss

Kala RH76. She was alone resting on the rocks and is nice and fat. She was still there later in the day, but will probably leave due to the high tide.

You never know what Team R&B are going to see when they are out there. Today it was two moths just about to have an intimate moment.

They made their way over to plains. Today there was only one seal set up in a zone. It was Mr. R407 Kawika. They were hoping the others would show up, but after waiting around for a while they headed out.