August 13, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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

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

August 12, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:02 to 2:18 pm and there were five seals seen during that time.

RH76 Kala and PO13 hauled out on LPB soon after Marilyn started viewing. At 12:38 pm Marilyn noticed Kala was alert towards the water. There was a seal swimming offshore by mom and pup. After the interloper left PO13 nursed and later went into snooze mode. TH76 still appears to have some reserves. PO13 is a porker and again showed her female belly.

Initially, two weaners were hauled out near each other up form the SRI channel. Marilyn is reasonably sure one of the weaners was RV50 because of the applied bleach on her upper left shoulder. Marilyn wasn't sure of the other weaners sex so it was reported as an Unknown Weaner.

At 1:01 pm Marilyn spotted a Sun-adult Female: sub-adult to adult size, new coat, female belly and at least one red tag. The SF and the two weaners were near each other for the rest of her viewing session.

Team R&B decided to start their day on the west side. Their first finds were a plover, a turtle and a HFD chopper shooting them a shaka. 

Finally they found a seal on shore with tourists hanging close by. The seal was a male and Team R&B hung out to try an make an ID. It wasn't until they got home looking at the photos they determined it was R416 Makali'i.

Next stop they spotted the same two seals foraging off the outfall. One of the seals was an adult female with lots of green on its coat. The

other seal was an adult with tags, other than that they had no other information. 

Heading over to plains they found RT06 Marvin closer to the fence line area. He was resting and his molt is about 65%.

Barb mentioned that she's been walking around with deep sadness over the news of the two deaths recently reported of two of our pup. It is heartbreaking for sure.

NOAA reported the recent deaths of two young male Hawaiian monk seals on Oahu's North Shore: a 3 month-old pup RV36 found entangled in an unattended fishing net near Mokuleia, and a 1 year old seal RU02. Umi;umi confirmed to have died from toxoplasmosis. 

Rabbit Island

Honu

R416

U/F

UU

RT06

August 11, 2026 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Their first sighting was at the outfall where there were two seals foraging. One seal adult size, and a scar on the right side of its head. The other seal was also adult size, dark around the eyes and older coat with lots of green.

Team R&B lost sight of them after an hour of observation. They thought maybe the 2nd seal could be Aukai.

Next they headed over to plains. RT06 Marvin came up on shore early morning. According to the lifeguards he had been pigging out before hauling out.  He is about 60% molted and looking good.

Heading west they had a nice surprise when they found RU04. She is nice and plump and her coat has a lot of green. She's probably going to molt soon. She was way up on shore due to the big waves. 

Driving along the coast they noticed a lot of people gathering in one area, and ta da.... there  was a seal. It was a large green seal. Parking was difficult, so by the time they got to where the seal was, it was galumphing towards the water. They got some pics and were able to ID RL08. He has a scar on his butt area, cc between shoulders and one red tag. Off he went heading west.

They got a call from a friend about a huge yacht off Maili. They went to check it out and it was huge and futuristic looking. Supposedly it's owned by a wealthy Japanese man. 

U/U  ???? Aukai????

U/U with snorkeler

RT06

RU04

RL08