June 11, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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

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

June 9, 2026 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:10 to 1:15 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

NOAA had planned to go to Rabbit Island to tag the three weaners, but ocean conditions were not safe so their schedule for another day.  So the team went to Ka'ena Point and tagged PO6 E'ono, male who is now RV36 (tags V36/V37).

On Rabbit Island all the seals were on LPB near the surge channel. Marilyn is reasonably sure the two weaners that she could see were PO4 and PO5, both males. They moved some but mostly stayed near the channel.

Nearby was MO10 and her pup PO10. They had at least one nursing session and then the pup sort of wandered around. Both mom and pup seem healthy.

At 1:06 pm, the third weaner which Marilyn believes was PO3 female, hauled out of the channel near the other weaners, but by 1:13 pm, all of the weaners were gone. Presumably into the LPB channel.

Team R&B started on the west side. They were watching and saw a seal coming up on the rocks. It was none other than the big beautiful

RH76 Kala. She had lots of visitors today, so Team R&B hung out for a while. Even the Hawaiian Practitioners visited with her today.

Over at electric beach they spotted RU22 on shore and she was alone. There was a dog with a leash running loose. A big wave hit her hard, that she spun around, as if she had no control. After the hit she galumphed up the sand to higher ground.

Next they headed over to plains. There was only one seal on shore. RT06 was back and there was a nice zone set up for him.

Lastly they watched the dolphins doing what they do best, putting on a magnificent show.

Rabbit Island

RH76

RU22

RT06

dolphins