May 24, 2026 Sunday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:58 to 2:36 pm and there were eight seals seen during that time.

PO3 is a weaner! When Marilyn first started viewing, she found PO3 alone on LPB. Marilyn still hasn't been able to confirm the sex of PO3. PO3 has the Allflex tag on its RRF. She didn't see the applied 3 bleach. PO3 was born six weeks ago today. MO3 was never identified, she is out mystery momma.

Near the middle of LPB was RK38 Hali'a and her pup PO4. RK38 hardly moved today, so there's not much to say about her condition. PO4 is probably a male, but the ventral is still fairly dark. Marilyn did see much snoozing and at least one nursing session.

RF34 Pua and her male pup PO5 entered the water just when Marilyn arrived. They hauled out again about 1:30 pm. They moved up shore and then they snoozed for a while before PO5 nursed. Marilyn wasn't able to see the applied 5 bleach on PO5.

When Marilyn first started viewing there were three seals near the SEI channel.

She is reasonably sure one of the seals was R7AF: sub-adult to adult size, mottled male belly, N61 applied bleach and two red tags.

Juvenile Female 1: smaller juvenile size, female belly, not sure about tags.

Juvenile Female 2: larger juvenile size, female belly, not sure about tags. JF2 disappeared about 1:25 pm and was not seen again.

Team R&B went to check Paradise Cove, hesitantly after yesterday's drama. When they got there, two seals were on shore. It was RL12 Aukai and R416 Makalii again. They looked but didn't see the unknown seal with the head wound today.

They met a couple John and Nancy who were wearing NOAA shirts, They were keeping an eye on the seals. There's a good chance RL12 and R416 spent the night.

Next they headed over to Nanakuli where they saw a seal on shore. The seal was tiny, skinny seal with lots of green on its coat. They were able to see one sandy tag U22. The seal was a female with a K3 on its butt area.  They didn't want to draw any attention to her so they didn't stay long. They checked with the posse and seem this little one is from Molokai.

They made their way to plains and saw from a distance there were signs up. So it took a little bit to find the seal but finally spotted a seal hiding in the rocks, high up. Probably due to the high surf. They watched and finally saw its tag, RT06. He's back looking thicker than the last time they saw him.

Just to add to how awesome nature is they captured a dragon fly in flight.

Rabbit Island

RL12  & R416

RU22

RT06

May 23, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:25 to 2:21 pm and only the three moms and their pups were on island during that time.

Out on the rock flats on the Lanikai side of LPB was MO3. Marilyn did not see PO3 until much later. She only saw a small portion of its back. Marilyn thinks MO3 will wean PO3 soon.

On LPB about 25 feet Lanikai side of the 1BS was RK38 Hali'a and her pup PO4. PO4 had two nursing session while they were on the beach. At one point PO4 headed for the water, but then returned to Mom and nursed some more. They disappeared from the beach and presumably entered the water around 1:20 and were not seen again.

RF34 Pua and PO5 started out on the rock flats on the Makapuu side of the small beach at Middle Cliff. Sometime around 1:00 pm Pua and pup entered the water and were seen briefly at the Middle Cliff beach. Around 2 pm they hauled out about 20 feet on the Lanikai side of Middle Cliff. The pup seem healthy and active.

Out on the west side Team R&B got word from a friend of a seal hauling out. They were just parking and when they got to the area it was EL20 Kalua was already up on the rocks.  He wasn't there very long as the waves were hitting him and then he rolled into the water.

He hung out for a bit and then moved on.

They had heard that there were seals at Paradise Cove yesterday, so they decided to check it out today. When they arrived there were lots of people in the water, on the rocks, and on shore.

There were signs on shore in the same spot as yesterday, but no seals. Then they saw three seals, fighting and swimming around in the lagoon. Every time one of the seals tried to haul out, people ran down to the shoreline to take pictures. 

Team R&B did their best to call out to the people to move back. It was especially upsetting when a boy chased a seal from the water. They yelled out to let the seals land. Truly upsetting.. One woman came by and helped Team R&B move the signs. Once they did RL12 Aukai came right in with R416. There was an seal with a head wound, who landed but R416 wasn't having him on shore, and they fought.

Finally the seal with the head wound went and landed on the rocks and all settled.

A call was made to the hotline and another lady called DLNR. Team R&B hung out until 2 pm and no one came while they were there.

 Rabbit Island

RL20

Unknown Male with head wound

R416 & U/M

R416 & RL12

Drama  -   R416 - RL12 - U/M

May 22, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:42 to 2:24 pm and there were just the Moms and their pups. 

Again near the LPB channel were MO3 and PO3. MO3 seem to be hanging in there and PO3 continues to grow. There was one nursing session. Marilyn still hasn't been able to determine PO3's sex.

About midway between the 1BS and 2BS were RK38 Hali'a and PO4. RK38 was draped across the waterfront rocks. She finally moved down lower on the rocks and then hauled out with PO4. Both mom and pup seem fine.

Further towards the 2BS were RF34 Pua and PO5. Marilyn is reasonably sure PO5 is a male. Mom and pup entered the water about 1:55 pm and Marilyn did not see them again.

Team R&B started on the west side looking for Miss Kala. They saw a seal coming in and it was Nalu R3CX. He went to all the seal inlets, rolled about took one last look and then took off. They didn't see him again and Kala never showed up.

Over at kahe they spotted two seals on the rocks resting. They weren't sure who the male was so they waited around for a long time. Thankfully he finally moved and they confirmed it was RL20 Kalua and RS32. 

They left the site and tried to head out to other spots, but traffic was so bad they made another check at kahe. There were still two seals there but now RS32 was with R416.  Interesting... what happened to RL20. They stuck around looking out at the water for almost an hour and then they saw a 3rd seal had arrived. There on the rocks were RS32 with R416 and RL20. 

They did think about Kaale, this was one of his main stops. They spent a lot of time with him and are missing him today.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

RL20 & RS32

R416 & RS32

RS32 with R416 & RL20

R416