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Friday, October 9, 2026

October 9, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:05 to 2:12 pm and there were five seals seen during that time.

On the Lanikai side of LPB was recent weaner RV76: large weaner size, light female belly and two red tags.

On the berm in the middle of LPB were three seals:

RV50: weaner size, female belly and three red tags; and

RK24 Bruno: adult size, old coat with scar on the right rear side, male belly and two red tags; and

Sub-adult Female: subadult size, new coat, light gray female belly, no obvious tags.

On the 1BS side of LPB was a Juvenile Female: juvenile size, old coat with lots of green, female belly and two red tags.

Team R&B were on the west side and spotted a little green seal from afar. They headed over and upon arrival they were able to ID RV20/V24.

They saw Miss Kala RH76 who is almost done with her molt, and looking much better. She had a lot of visitors today, so Team R&B stayed and kept watch. When all the people left, Team R&B left to look for more seals.

While on the road they saw a seal but the traffic was stopped so it took them a bit to get there. When they arrived at the site there were two seals fighting, one sub-adult size, female, who they ID'd as RS32.

She landed, but the smaller seal took off. The other seal was younger, green, dark eyes and two red tags. They weren't able to read the tags, but saw that it was a male.

Lastly they headed over to check on R407 at Nimitz. He was more to the right of where he had been during his molt. However he is officially done molting and looking handsome. Mahalo to posse pal Carol for keeping an eye on him.

Rabbit Island

RV20/V24

RH76

RS32 & Sub-adult Male

RS32

Sub-adult male

R407

Thursday, October 8, 2026

October 8, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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

When it rains it pours and today was proof of that. Team R&B did manage to check out a few spots on the west side when there was a break in the weather. They didn't push their luck and headed home.

They found Kala RH76 resting at her zen spot in the rocks. Her molt is about 65% done.

The rain came again just as they spotted another seal. It was RV20/V24 and he was alone resting in the heavy rain.

Then they called it a day.

RH76

RV20

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

October 7, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn hiked Ka'ena Point today from 8:32 am to 12:30 pm and saw six seals during that time.

First find was RL47 Kamakana: adult size, two red tags, new coat, male belly. He looks healthy. (He is RB12 Sadies' 2019 Rabbit Island pup).

Next there was RW02 PvKauai, but he was on a side of a berm and Marilyn wasn't able to get a good photo.

Then there were two seals a short distance from each other:

R330 Squinty: adult size, male belly, older coat and 3CB tag.

RP96 Loli'i: sub-adult to adult size, male belly and P96 tag.

In the NAR were two seals:

The first one was visiting all the spots from Ka'ena's pool to the main pool: adult size, old coat, male belly, pit scar at the base of LFF and scar over left eye. This was RN04 Kainoa, whom Marilyn has not seen in aged. He is RB12 Sadie's 2013 Rabbit Island pup.

The final seal was mostly submerged, but she believes this was Lefty RG28. (no photos)

Team R&B started on the west side, they had no idea that a seal was below them in the rocks. It was their beloved RH76 Kala who is about 60% molted. She was alert as if there was another seal and there was.

They spotted another seal to the right far out foraging. It was Lei Ola RH48 and she was alone today.

They also so another seal foraging, it was sub-adult size, clean coat, tags but unsure of sex. It was reported as an unknown sub-adult.

After an appointment they headed over to plains and found RG89Huakai high up on shore. They hurried to try and see another seal way down. Much to their surprise on shore further down was R416 looking green and plump. He left the area about 3 pm after throwing up.

Their last find was at nimitz, it was late and the traffic was bad. The seal was R407 Kawika on shore very alert and moving about. There

were a couple people in the area, they were walking down, but then turned around. R407 is well into his molt and will soon be the handsome male that he is, but for now he's a raggedy mess.