June 12, 2026 Friday's Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 8:37 to 11:37 am this morning. 

A four person NOAA team kayaked to Rabbit Island to tag the weaners and ID MO10 and PO10. And they had some big news.

Here are thee new IDs and bling for the weaners:

PO3 female is now RV50 with tags V50/V51 and an Allflex tag 930. No one was ever able to ID her mom, so we don't know what blood line she comes from. She was tagged down from the 3BS. She then took off and showed up later near the 1BS.

PO4 male whose Mom is RK38 Hali'a is now RV68 with tags V68/V69 and Allflex tag 936. He was tagged near LPB.

PO5 male, whose mom is RF34 Pua. After PO5 was tagged on LPB he hung around some dried branches on the beach for a few minutes.

The BIG news of the day was ID of MO10. She is RM26 Nohea, Kaiwi RK96's 2020 pup born at Alan Davis. Marilyn had heard very little of her and assumed she was gone. She was Kaiwi's last pup born at Alan Davis, thereafter Kaiwi has had all her pups at Kaimana Beach.  Mom RM26 and PO10 seem to be doing fine. They started out between the 1BS and 2BS, tthen swam clear to the RRB channel, and then back to the SRI channel. They do get around.

Also on Rabbit Island on RRB was RU38, Pua's 2025 RI pup. She is very large for a yearling and Marilyn thinks she has been IDing her as a sub-adult.

Apparently RU70, RJ30 Wailea's 2025 pup was also seen by the NOAA team.

Team R&B first find today was at Kahe. There was a fat RL20 Kalua sound a sleep on the rocks. He was alone for now.

After their appointment they went back to the site. They saw two seals at the outfall foraging. They couldn't get an ID or a photo. 

They check on RL20 and now he had company. R416 had joined him. R416 moved to the other side of the rocks and RL20 was in the pond snoozing.

They got word of a seal at plains by the cabins, but by they time they got out there the seal had left. The cabin guy said the seal only hung out for about 20 minutes and then was gone.

Team R&B went looking around and saw a crowd of people taking photos, so they hurried over to find a really large, female with lots of green and they didn't see any tags. 

People kept passing by and Team R&B did their best to get people to respect the seal. 

Meanwhile Team R&B was trying to figure out who this big female is.... then they saw the left flipper with bleached nails, ding on right shoulder and no tags. They believe this is Rocky RH58, It's been a long long time since they have seen her. 

Lastly they stopped at Nimitz and saw some awesome boobies fishing. They were able to get a couple of great shots.

Rabbit Island

RL20

R416

Rocky ?????

 

Diving Boobies

June 11, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:26 to 2:37 pm and there were seven seals seen during that time.

Just when Marilyn started viewing an Adult Male was hauling out to two of the weaners on LPB. The AM hassled the two weaners and then galumphed over to the other weaner that was near the back Lanikai side of the LPB. The AM then moved back to a weaner in the middle of LPB, until he moved down the LPB channel. The weaners snoozed with some relocation during the rest of the viewing session.

Among rocks in the middle of the Middle Cliff was MO10 and her pup PO10. MO10 seemed to be in a really awkward position and the pup was mostly hidden behind mom.

Initially alone down from the 3BS was a Sub-adult Female: larger sub-adult size, very green female belly and two red tags.

Around 1 pm, the AM who had been at LPB, joined the SF and they had some spats in the shallow near shore waters. Then both seals moved up the beach and went into snooze mode.

Team R&B started on the west side and found RU12 who was resting alone. There are dogs in the area and began to bark so Team R&B stayed long enough to make an ID and then left the site.

Next they spotted a seal on shore at electric beach from afar. They saw a woman walking towards the seal so they hurried to the site. The seal turned around facing the water, which gave them only a few minutes to make the ID. A wave hit and they could see it was RU22, so green and thing. She spun around then the wave took her out. They saw her tags. RU22 just went out with the waves, floating away, head above the water. Team R&B noted she may have some scratches on her side.

Team R&B headed out to plains. Upon arriving they saw an adult seal, but couldn't see tags and it never moved. They think this might be KG89 who has lots of scratches on her body. KG89 is green and thin, which means she would have had her pup somewhere else.

While watching over KG89 they noticed lots of people on shore way down by the cabins. And there was a seal. By the time they made it over they ID'd RT06 and all the folks moved on. RT06 was just chilling on this Kamehameha Day.

Rabbit Island

RU12

RU22

KG89 ????

RT06

June 10, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:44 to 2:03 pm and there were five seals seen during that time. 

All five Seals, three recent weaners and MO10 and PO10, were near the entrance to the LPB channel.

The weaners all moved around some but were near each other and the mom and pup. Marilyn labeled the photo of the weaners and believes she got it right.

MO10 and PO10 snoozed and nursed. At one point PO10 took off for

awhile, but later returned to mom. Both mom and pup seem to be healthy.

Team R&B first sighting was an Unknown foraging off the outfall. They had been there for quite awhile and they only saw the U/U foraging. They were hoping to get something to ID the seal but no luck.

Much later in the day, they were on the west side when it started raining. Of course they spotted a seal and they made their way over to

find RL20 Kalua. He was right where Kala was yesterday. They also saw a booby bird go fishing and it surprised a Mom and daughter on a SUP.

Lastly they got to watch the dolphins put on a show. They were jumping clear out of the water going bananas. They did see one of the dolphins had two sucker fish on its side. There were quite a few people watching the dolphins cheering for them.

Rabbit Island

Unknown

RL20

Booby fishing 

dolphins