July 4, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

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

Happy July 4th! Hope everyone had a good and safe day.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:19 to 3:17 pm and there were ultimately eight seals on Island today.

The big news of the day is RH76 had her pup while Marilyn was viewing today. Kala was down and slightly Lanikai side of the 1BS at 1:57 pm, Kala starting exhibiting behavior that Marilyn suspected was precursor to giving birth. She kept vocalizing and looking back at her rear. At about 2:15 pm (unfortunately while Marilyn was checking out

the other seals) she gave birth among the waterfront rocks. PO13 was getting splashed by water which made Marilyn nervous. Then the pup moved up towards Kala's head and mom and pup nosed each other. For some time the umbilical cord and placenta was still attached to the pup, but then it separated. The pup nosed mom's ventral, but never actually nursed. Mom and pup seem fine. 

There were four seals on various areas of LPB. At the back Lanikai side of LPB were two seals:

Weaner Male 1: weaner size, male belly, did not see tags.

Juvenile Female: juvenile size, new coat, light female belly, did not see tags. This may be RU38 who had been very green then Marilyn saw partially molted.

Sub-adult Female: sub-adult to small adult size, older coat, female belly and two red tags.

Newly weaned PO10, Marilyn kept looking for RM26 Nohea with PO10, but thinks she must have weaned the pup on Day 38. The seal labeled PO10 is smaller weaner size, with some pup fur left, female belly and no tags.

Initially in the Middle Cliff beach was weaner RV50: weaner size,  light female belly and 3 red tags. Later she moved up on the rock flats above the beach.

Initially in the SRI channel was Weaner Male 2: weaner size, light male belly and at least two red tags. This weaner may have a silver dollar size NB on the lower mid left side.

Team R&B tried their best to get to the pup site early. Upon arrival Rocky and PO11 were going for a shallow swim. They haven't seen PO11 go into deep waters yet. Mom barked at the kid, not sure why

Team R&B didn't see anything.  They hung out together by the rocks, Rocky holding the pup with her one flipper, blocking her body with her own. On hour of this the pup began to bark. Must be hungry.

Then Rocky slowly got to the a ledge and began her slow climb up. PO11 still barking. Rocky made it then called the pup, who always has difficulty getting up on the rocks. Everyone watched all thinking the same thing.... you can do it!

PO11 made it up with mom, mom moved further in on the rocks and presented to the kid. 

Meanwhile there are kids swimming about 100 feet away in the Keiki pond on both sides. There were fishers in protection zone with many poles.  Suddenly the winds picked up a football and floated to area where mom and pup are snoozing. Of course the kids wanted their ball. They were told to wait, the will move with the wind. A volunteer asked the fishers to get the ball and he picked it up, ball given back to the kids. 

Team R&B called it a day and headed home before things got crazy for the night.

Rabbit Island  RH76 & PO13

Rabbit Island

Rocky & PO11

July 3, 2026 In DB's Own Words

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July 3, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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Team R&B's first find today was at plain where they saw a female seal with lots of green. They thought it looked like KG54/G89. Sure enough they saw her tag it was in face Huaka'i. She was by the surf shack.

Then they spotted another seal as someone called out look! They saw the seal coming in another seal looking quite green. It was RT06 Marvin !! The lifeguards were on it and placed signs up for him.

Much to their surprise there were two more seals on  shore towards the Honolulu end.

After careful observation they ID'd the female as Lei Ola RH48 and the male was R3CX Nalu. There was a zone set up for them. Thank goodness because it was crowded.

Finally they were able to head out to the pup site. They were amazed by the hundreds of people, tents, dogs and fishers in the pup fenced area that the seals are not using.

A netter came and Team R&B were able to talk with him and he left. A man in the zone with a big pit bull, which Team R&B reacted by

putting their hands up to stop.  He asked where he could go with his dog, and a volunteer came over to talk with him.

People in the driftwood area, the small ponds with dogs.

Mom and PO11 were in the little Keiki pond near the old birth fence. Along the fence was a family tent.

Meanwhile there was a nursing session then sleep. 

Team R&B left the site, in that it was frustrating to watch and they just pray Rocky and PO11 will be okay. Tomorrow going to be a nightmare.

After leaving the pup site, they went back to the west side and were surprised that Yoks was open after months of being closed. There were two seals on shore both males. One of the males very green was RP30 Puka. The other male had no tags and they could not ID so he is reported as an Unknown Male,

The waves kept hitting the unknown male without tags left at 3:30 pm.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 4:36 to 5:05 pm, and there were seven seals seen during that time.

In the middle of LPB was RH76 Kala: large pregnant size and female belly. She has not given birth yet.

Nearby was Juvenile Unknown 1: juvenile size, tags no info in sex.

Between the 1BS and 2BS was Weaner Unknown 1: weaner size and shape no info on tags or sex.

In the middle cliff area was Weaner Unknown 2: weaner size and shape, three red tags, no info on sex.

Down from the 3BS was RM26 Nohea and PO10. They were in snooze mode.

Out on RRB was Juvenile Unknown 2: weaner or juvenile size, light belly, sex and tags unknown. Later JU 2 rolled over and moved a short distance away. The coat appeared to be an older coat.

KG89/G54

RT06

RH48  & R3CX

Rocky & PO11

RP30

U/M

Rabbit Island

July 2, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:39 to 2:37 and there were seven seals seen during that time. There were several seals on the rock flats Lanikai of LPB and at the back of LPB.

Marilyn saw a Weaner Unknown on the rock flats next to the LPB channel: weaner size, shape and coloration, not sure about sex or tags.

Later Marilyn saw at least three seals in the rock flats including two

recent weaners and the other may be the molting juvenile to sub-adult female. There was a lot of moving around and it was difficult to figure out the IDs of the seals.

On the LPB shoreline a short distance on the Lanikai side of the 1BS was a very pregnant RH76 Kala. Marilyn could see the applied 7 bleach on her left side. Her nipples do not appear to be "popped" but I bet she gives birth in the next two days.  (Thank goodness she arrived)

At 1:23 pm, Marilyn finally found RM26 Nohea and PO10 in a tide pool on the RRB side of the SRI channel. Mom and pup hauled out and the pup nursed before going snooze mode. Nohea looks like she might have some sort of swelling on her left neck area. The pup did show its lightening belly, but

Marilyn could not determine sex.

At 2:09 pm, a Sub-adult Female hauled out in the RRB channel: sub-adult size, light female belly, could not see tags.

Team R&B first find today on the west side was from afar. The seal was sub-adult size, greenish coat. The seal hauled up and it didn't take long for the fans to show up.

Along their searching today they were treated to so many dolphins doing what they do best. Having fun!

Over the years searching for seals Team R&B are amazed how they always seem to show up on three day holidays.  They check out plains and saw that very cute male RT06 on shore. They spoke with a couple of the life guards and they really want to name RT06 Marvin... after the head lifeguard that passed away. Marvin was well known, worked hard and protected the monk seals that came to shore, all the time. The boys continue in his memory to protect the seals. This is very cool of them remembering a beloved man and wanting to honor him by naming one of the seals.

Team R&B headed over to the pup site and when they arrived there were lots of people, but didn't see mom and pup. 

Rocky RH58 and PO11 were up on the rocks to the right, pretty much hidden. She nursed on the rocks. Everyone (people) were good today, asked questions. Days like this are fun. They waited a long time for mom and pup to move out of that spot, it was literally hours.

Finally the tide was rising and mom and pup went into the rough water. Rocky gets nervous of the pup swimming in this area. The pup tends to get sucked away from her. Of course she barked so loud for PO11 to get her butt back here with her. The pup struggled but made it back to mom. They stayed in the keiki pond forever.

Volunteer watched closely as there were lots of people in the water to the left side, where they had spent four days. You could see her looking to go there by the driftwood but heard all those kids playing, so she climbed up the reef, pup tried and tried to climb up, Mom barking again.

The pup got moved away by the currents, Momma Rocky barking more, pup put on her power mode and swam back, got up on the rocks with mom. That certainly was a celebrating moment.

Team ended their day happy having enjoyed watching mom and pup plus people were really good today. An added plus was getting the news that RH76 Kala arrived at Rabbit Island Whew!

Rabbit Island

Unknown Sub-adult

dolphins

RT06

Rocky & PO11