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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

February 4, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:36 to 2:12 pm and there was only one seal seen during that time.

Initially on the rock flats on the Mauka side of SRI was a sub-adult female: sub-adult size, tan female belly, two red tags. Marilyn believes this is the same S/F she reported at the same location yesterday.

Team R&B first find was Miss Kala RH76. She was at Pokai alone

resting off to the right. A surfer didn't see her while he was jumping from rock to rock to catch the waves. Thankfully he came to a stop. Kale was very alert and looking quite fat.

While at Kahe they were scanning the water. They spotted a seal near the buddha area, then it swam pass them. They determined it was an adult with a green snout, unsure if it had tags. Reported as an Unknown Adult.

They headed over to plains and found an adult male for a while. They saw he had two takes, but he was covered with sand. It took them a bit

to get a clear tag shot and was able to ID R3CX Nalu. The boy is back at the neighborhood.

Then they spotted another seal at plains. It was great to find Aukai RL12 resting so peacefully on her back.

On their last stop they saw a seal from afar and people were close by. By the time they made it over to yoks the seal moved from higher up down to the rocks. It was a smaller seal, a little thin and they think

there was a tag, but it was probably covered. The seal had dings on right and left shoulders and a green snout. The seal never moved so they didn't have much to work with. It was reported as an Unknown Juvenile.

The icing on the cake was they got to see quite a few whales!

Rabbit Island

RH76

U/A

R3CX

RL12

Unknown Juvenile

Whales

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

February 3, 2026 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 1:23 to 3:32 pm and there were two seals seen during that time.

Among the water front rocks between the 1BS and 2BS was a Juvenile Female: juvenile size, older coat, light yellow female belly and two red tags.

On the rock flats near SRI was a Sub-adult Female: sub-adult size, light female belly, no info on tags.

Marilyn did see one of the juvenile Masked Boobies on the upper crater ridge and a Brown Booby in the water near Middle Cliff.

Team R&B's first find was RP30 Puka. He was alone hauled up on the rocks. He was very alert but there wasn't any other seals around.

They received a couple of text messages of two seals at plains. So they headed out to the area and found the lovely KG89 Huakai. She was in the company of a young male. Huakai is getting really fat, soooo big.

The male had two red tags, one read J01. He had a small ding on the right side of his head and a possible small scar on left eye. He looked as though he had just went through a molt and lost some weight, wrinkled up some. Team R&B did not recognize him. Hopefully they'll get some feedback as to who this male is.( "J" tags are from 2017).

Team R&B ran some errands in the area and while at Costco they got a call of a third seal at plains. When they were done they hurried over to check it out. The small male RJ01 was still there, but no KG89. To the left of the fence line was RL12 Aukai.

Rabbit Island

RP30

KG89

RJ01 ? Unknown Male

RL12

RJ01

Monday, February 2, 2026

February 2, 2026 Monday's Dailies

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

Yes they were out there today among the high winds that hit the island.

They decided to head over to electric beach since there has been a lot of activity there. When they arrived there was only one seal up on shore RL08.

Team R&B waited and educated all the tourist that came around. They flagged them again, especially since one group was overly excited by screaming as they came running to video them Thankfully Team R&B were able to stop them before they got too close.

They saw another seal swimming by, but it passed them heading in the direction of tacks. The seal hauled out at tracks and they ID'd Kaale RH32 and he decided to stay put.

Now they spot a third seal hauling up. The seal was RN14 Kalani and he galumphed over to RL08. There were no fights just sleep. There was a time when RN14 and RH32 were best buddies.

Much to their surprise seal number four arrived. This seal was much smaller compared to RN14 and RL08. They could see there is a hook and fishing line on its back, they didn't see anything around the mouth area. The little seal was ID'd as RP28 Wakea, and the hook isn't life

threatening. They did call it into the hotline.

Team R&B stayed for over three hours concerned someone would bother the seals. Unfortunately Team R&B had to head out.

Next stop was at Kahe where they found two seals. They were on separate rocks. RS32 was to the left and RG32 was to the right snoozing. The weather was crazy strong winds, choppy waters making for dangerous surf. From afar they saw four men approaching the seals at electric beach.

So they weren't wrong about the seals getting bothered. The four men

went right up to the seals on shore looking at their faces and taking photos. The seals tossed their head in the air, flippers up and of course the guys loved it. Team R&B called the hotline and DLNR.