August 17, 2026 Monday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:42 to 2:49 pm and there were three groups of seals.

RH76 Kala and her plump pup PO13 started out on the rock flats on the Lanikai side of LPB. Sometime before 1:10 pm Kala and pup disappeared from  the rock flays. At 1:37 pm they hauled out of the LPV channel and moved up the beach. They then interacted with several of the seals that had been in the middle of LPB.

A group of three seals were in the middle of LPB:

Weaner Female: weaner size, female belly and at least two red tags.

Weaner Male: weaner size,, male belly and at least two red tags.

R416 Makali'i: small adult size, mottled ventral with several distinctive dark patches, no tags, and a pit scar on the base of his LFF.

R416 followed by the WF left LPB through the channel at 2:12 pm passing by Kala and PO13.

Initially two seals were together down from the 3BS:

Sub-adult Male: small sub-adult to large juvenile, newer coat, light male belly and two tags.

Juvenile Female: juvenile size, light female belly and two red tags.

At 2:27 pm. the two seals near the 3BS were joined by the Female

Weaner that had been on LPB earlier.

There did not appear to be any damage to Rabbit Island from Tropical Storm Lala.

Team R&B thankfully are safe but experienced a lot of wind and debris as a result of the storm. They lost electricity yesterday and did not have it restored until this afternoon. 

They were out today and saw lots of damage on the west side, branches off trees, roofing material scattered.  Park trees were down, a big one at the Waianae Inter-mediate school down.

They went to check yoks but it was closed, Kahe closed, and Plains was open. There were lots of trees

down.

They did find one seal. There was Marvelous Marvin RT06, looking good and very handsome in his new coat. They didn't stay long as they had to go pick up a few things.

Good news when they got home electricity was on.

Rabbit Island

RT06

tree down

August 16 2026 Sunday

No Update Due to Tropical Storm/Hurricane LaLa

August 15, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

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While most of us were home preparing for Hurricane Lala, Team R&B were looking for seals. 

They found RT06 Marvin at plains. He is 100% done with his molt  Looking quite handsome.

Years ago I use to worry about the seals during stormy weather..... but then I thought they must be having a blast, surfing the waves and hauling out without any people around.  Tomorrow on Oahu they will have that day, and Team R&B better be home and stay safe.

August 14, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:20 to 2:20 pm and there were seven or eight seals seen during that time.

At 12:55 pm a Juvenile Female hauled out at the back Lanikai side of LPB: juvenile size, old coat  with lots of green, female belly and at least one red tag.

In the middle back of LPB was Weaner Unknown 1: weaner size, light yellow belly, unsure about sex, at least two red tags. At 1:55 pm theWU1 relocated next to the JF.

RH76 Kala and PO13 were in the middle of LPB for the entire time. PO13 is really chubby with a very light female belly.

An Adult Unknown hauled out of the LPB channel and at 12:27 pm moved up close to Kala and PO13. Kala vocalized several times at the AU. Ultimately the AU rolled down shore and into the water. 

On the 3BS side of Middle Cliff was Weaner Unknown 2: weaner size, two tags, lighter ventral, unknown sex. At 12:52 pm an Adult Male joined the WU2. The AM has a lighter ventral than the AU had. Both WU2 and the AM went into snooze mode. 

Out on the rock flats on the RRB side of the SRI channel was an adult female seal. Marilyn is reasonable sure this is RP24 Mohala, based on her NB on her LFF. She is adult size, new gray coat and two red tags.

Team R&B started out on the west side. They saw another mega-size

yacht out on the water.  Hope they get to safety before the storm.  (maybe their on a 3 hour tour lol ).

Back to the seals, their first find was a male with no tags. He was resting on the rocks. They believe this could be RG32.

There was a second seal to the right. It was alone and they couldn't see much of the seal to make an ID. Reported as an Unknown Adult. 

Their next find was at Kahe. There were fishers on the rocks so they were surprised a seal was in the area. That's when they saw a seal swim by. They ID'd him as RL08m he was heading west.

Next they headed over to plains. RT06 Marvin came up later in the day. When they saw him he was resting and folks were walking by him. The lifeguards were at the other tower, since this one is under repair.  RT06 is about 99% done with his molt. They noted there was

no fur around anywhere. He probably gets it washed off when he goes for a swim. Team R&B have grown attached to this boy. Hope he is a regular west side guy.

Rabbit Island

RG32

Unknown Adult

RL08

RT06

August 13, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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Their first sighting of the day were the dolphins.  The surf was rough and the dolphins were further out. But Team R&B still got to enjoy them.

Once again by the outfall area there were two seals foraging together.
Team R&B couldn't make an ID which I know must be frustrating. Unknown #1 had two tags, adult size, and greenish coat.

Unknown #2 had one tag, adult size and very green.

They made it out to plains. They were happy to see RT06 Marvin in a zone. Today he was very itchy and kept flipping over. He was fine other than that.  Usually people are really good about respecting the zone but today several folks crossed in front of him. 

As they were leaving for the day, one of the lifeguards came by telling them another seal was with RT06. So of course they hurried back.

On shore was an adult seal no tags seen. They did not see any markers to get an ID. The two seal sniffed each other then both entered the water.  The unknown adult swam to the ewa side of the beach and landed. But soon after took off passing all the swimmers. 

Meanwhile RT06 hauled out near the fence line. They scrambled to get a few signs and asked folks to move back. Then the wonderful lifeguards came over and reset a zone.

dolphins

U/U  #2 one tag

U/U #1 two tags

RT06

Unknown Adult and RT06

RT06