March 17, 2025 Monday's Dailies

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

They had a short day today. They spent the morning looking in all the usual places, but was coming up empty.  Then they finally spotted a seal. It was RM31 Kai, he was alone resting on shore.

They spent some time watching the surfers, saw some goats and some driftwood structures.

Team R&B called it a day after being in the rain all day. I think we are all over the wet weather.

RM31

goats

driftwood

surfer

March 16, 2026 Monday's Dailies

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

Marilyn was finally able to make it out to the pier today. She viewed Rabbit Island from 12:16 to 2:43 pm and there were three seals seen during that time.

On the 3BS side of Middle Cliff was a Sub-adult Male: sub-adult size, tan-gray male belly and two tags.

Near the 3BS was a Juvenile Unknown: smaller juvenile size, two tags and unsure of text.

Near the SRI was a Juvenile Female: larger juvenile size, older coat with some green on the tan female belly and two red tags.

Team R&B had a slow start finding any seals this morning. Finally after a couple of hours of looking they finally found a seal on the west side. The seal was hidden but Team R&B know how to spot them. They were able to ID RU40 Wai.

They got a text from a friend of another seal on the west side.  They went looking and sure enough they found Miss Kala RH76.

They kept looking going along their journey and finally noticed a seal on shore. They walked over and saw it was an Adult Female with no tags. The waves were moving her around, so they had to wait until they could get a better view of her. She finally moved and saw that she had a lot of CC scars. That's then they knew it was R604. They were happy to see her since its been a long time. She is looking chubby, not huge but chubby.

Rabbit Island

RU40

RH76

R604

March 16, 2026 Sunday's Dailies

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

They started their day on the west side and was happy to see their little guy N45 Na'au. He was alone high up on shore. There were people who stopped to see him. Team R&B did a lot of educating showing pictures of the little guy.  People asked why no one was feeding him? They explained that he finds his own food along with the face he is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection act as well as the Endangered Species act. Feeding, approaching, bothering him in anyway is against the law.

Team R&B spent about four hours with him and keeping people from approaching.

Also on  the west side they found Miss Kala RH76 resting in her zen space. There was not as much foam as there was yesterday.  They saw a woman come up with a sign that said Parking for Police. She stuck the sign in the rocks and then left.   Team R&B told the janitor about the sign and he saw it. The sign looks new, but one wonders if its suppose to be there, or did she move it from somewhere else?

Next they made their way to plains and found R407 Kawika alone in a

zone  that was set up by the lifeguards. They were really surprised to see the area so clean, not full of debris like the Waianae Coast line. The was was clean too, not brown.  An added bonus was the sun was out and blue skies. They hadn't seen the sun for days.

Lastly they saw the Iwa birds flying in the Kahe area. They have been seeing them the last few days. They were thrilled to see them again today.

N45

RH776

R407

Iwa Bird

March 14, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

There was no post for Friday 3/13 due to the storm that hit the island, people were home dealing with heavy rains, high winds and power outages.

But today's dailies are brought to you by Team R&B💕 They of course couldn't wait to get out there today.

They headed out to the west side, I'm sure to try and find N45. It was another day of rain, not as bad and the winds died down some. 

They found the lovely Miss Kala RH76 with foam from the beach around her and on her body. She stayed there for the day.

They did their entire route and the only find of the day was Kala.  The coast line was brown dirty water and foam everywhere.  (caused by the agitation from the wind and waves)

They saw lots of Iwa birds and Team R&B did their best to capture them in their photos. There was lots of debris and by the end of the day the surf was wild again. 

RH76

Beaches

Iwa

March 12, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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

Starting their day on the west side they spotted a seal. They underestimated the distance and ended up going for an extra long walk. When they got nearer they were able to ID RW02 PvKauai; He was alone and resting high up on shore. There was only one person in the area which was good. 

While still in the area they spotted another seal further away. There was an accident, so they ended up walking. They were happy they made the trek, because there he was their beloved N45 Na'au. He was resting on shore. Thankfully he was staying out of the brown water. They did check later in the day and he was still there.

They decided to head over to plains and take a chance that it would be open today since it was closed yesterday. They were happy it was open and there were two seals on the beach. There was the lovely RL12 Aukai and R407 Kawika.  They saw a lot of drift wood on shore and a long plank that was about 20 feet long. Thankfully someone had moved it all the way up. 

Before calling it a day they headed west again hoping the weather would hold up. They were glad they did since they found RM31 Kai resting. He was alone on shore and they noted that there was a lot of driftwood and debris on shore. But Kai found himself a good spot in the naupaka.

While there they saw a turtle "singing".  They also saw sharks out at pipes.

RW02

N45

RL12 & R407

RM31

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