June 13, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:14 to 2:03 pm and there were six seals seals seen during that time.

The three weaners, PO3/RV50 female, PO4/RV68 male, and PO5/RV70 male were all at the back of LPB near the cliffs. They moved around a fair amount, but at one point all lined up with their light bellies showing. Three peas in a pod. 

On the middle of LPB was RM26 Nohea and her pup PO10. They

moved up because of the rrising tide and then the pup nursed before going into snooze mode. Mom and pup seem fine.

Out between the SRI and RRB on the rock flats was RU38. She is a Juvenile Female but looks larger anad is very green. Marilyn could see her two red tags.

Team R&B had a very eventful day on the west side.  Their first find was the lovely Miss Kala RH76.. She was on the reef resting. She wasn't alone, she had the crabs keeping her company.

Next they came across R416. The handsome Makali'i was alone today resting. 

Team R&B saw the fire in the Nanakuli area and mentioned there were two rescues. 

Lastly they went to check to see if RH58 Rocky was still around. They first had to view her from afar because there was no parking. She was high up on shore. 

They left and went back to the area and got a space. So they rushed over to check. There were fishing poles and lots of people and tents near her.  Rocky was very vocal, enough so that Team R&B thought it was unusual. They knew she

wasn't happy, so they asked people to give her some space. There was one fishing pole near her and a scoop net under her face. There were kids that kept passing by.

Then they noticed Rocky was pushing and they saw a bubble popping out. That's when they realized she was giving birth. Then came the pup who was so active, galumphed around mom. Mom barking at the pup.

The fishers families were so excited, not to mention Team R&B being over the moon. They had to keep begging people to move away, keep back.  Team R&B called, the lifeguards, police, NOAA and the

hotline. The Lifeguards came with signs and ropes, they're the best. Team R&B explained to the fishers to move the tents, that the authorities will be coming to set up a zone for mom and pup. 

The fisherman wanted his pole back that was next to mom and pup. Finally when HMAR arrived they got permission to get the pole away from Rocky. One went in zone by mom to distract her and the other person ran to pull the pole out. Fisherman was happy and he caught a big OIO.

DLNR also arrived on scene.  Team R&B noticed the pup has a natural bleach on its left fore flipper, just like momma.

Team R&B waited 20 years to experience a moment like this. I personally and thrilled that happened for them and especially with a grand seal like Miss Rocky.

Rabbit Island

RH76

R416

Star of the day Miss Rocky'

Meet PO11

June 12, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 8:37 to 11:37 am this morning. 

A four person NOAA team kayaked to Rabbit Island to tag the weaners and ID MO10 and PO10. And they had some big news.

Here are thee new IDs and bling for the weaners:

PO3 female is now RV50 with tags V50/V51 and an Allflex tag 930. No one was ever able to ID her mom, so we don't know what blood line she comes from. She was tagged down from the 3BS. She then took off and showed up later near the 1BS.

PO4 male whose Mom is RK38 Hali'a is now RV68 with tags V68/V69 and Allflex tag 936. He was tagged near LPB.

PO5 male, whose mom is RF34 Pua. After PO5 was tagged on LPB he hung around some dried branches on the beach for a few minutes.

The BIG news of the day was ID of MO10. She is RM26 Nohea, Kaiwi RK96's 2020 pup born at Alan Davis. Marilyn had heard very little of her and assumed she was gone. She was Kaiwi's last pup born at Alan Davis, thereafter Kaiwi has had all her pups at Kaimana Beach.  Mom RM26 and PO10 seem to be doing fine. They started out between the 1BS and 2BS, tthen swam clear to the RRB channel, and then back to the SRI channel. They do get around.

Also on Rabbit Island on RRB was RU38, Pua's 2025 RI pup. She is very large for a yearling and Marilyn thinks she has been IDing her as a sub-adult.

Apparently RU70, RJ30 Wailea's 2025 pup was also seen by the NOAA team.

Team R&B first find today was at Kahe. There was a fat RL20 Kalua sound a sleep on the rocks. He was alone for now.

After their appointment they went back to the site. They saw two seals at the outfall foraging. They couldn't get an ID or a photo. 

They check on RL20 and now he had company. R416 had joined him. R416 moved to the other side of the rocks and RL20 was in the pond snoozing.

They got word of a seal at plains by the cabins, but by they time they got out there the seal had left. The cabin guy said the seal only hung out for about 20 minutes and then was gone.

Team R&B went looking around and saw a crowd of people taking photos, so they hurried over to find a really large, female with lots of green and they didn't see any tags. 

People kept passing by and Team R&B did their best to get people to respect the seal. 

Meanwhile Team R&B was trying to figure out who this big female is.... then they saw the left flipper with bleached nails, ding on right shoulder and no tags. They believe this is Rocky RH58, It's been a long long time since they have seen her. 

Lastly they stopped at Nimitz and saw some awesome boobies fishing. They were able to get a couple of great shots.

Rabbit Island

RL20

R416

Rocky ?????

 

Diving Boobies

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