December 4, 2025 Thursday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 9:10 am to 12:18 pm and a NOAA team went out to the island today. Mark and Rob did a survey and some bleaching.   They were able to bleach four of the six seals that were out there today.

At the back of the Lanikai side of LPB in the shadows was RU70: weaner size,  female belly U70 tag. She is RJ30 Wailea's Mokokua Nui 2025 pup. (formerly PO13).

There were three seals on the 1BS side of LPB. There was some

interaction among three before they entered the water at 9:23 am. Marilyn saw them later near the 2BS for a short time. Then at 9:57 am, one of the seals hauled out on the Makapuu side of 3BS and then the two other seals hauled out to her.

The three seals were:

RQ32: sub-adult to adult size, light female belly, two red tags and a small dark scar on the right side of her face. She was born on Molokai. She has been seen on the east side several times. Marilyn suspects she was the  the A/F reported yesterday. She got an N on

bleach on her left hip, unfortunately she moved before she got a N60 bleach.

RK24 Bruno: adult size, newer coat, light to medium gray male belly, lower lip scar and two red tags. He got a N33 bleach on his right side.

R7AF was the third seal of the group: adult male, darker male belly, two red tags. He later relocated to the RRB channel where the NOAA team was able to apply N61 bleach on both of his hips.

Near the waterline between 3BS and SRI was an unknown adult labeled Adult Male: large adult size, dark mottled gray male belly, no

tags. He got N32 bleach on both hips.  Maybe NOAA can identify him from their photos when they get back to the office. He almost got a flex tag but he moved before they could get to it.

Near the SRI channel was RU38: older weaner size and shape, yellow female belly and two red tags. She did not cooperated in the efforts to bleach her, so no bleach.

Well Team R&B had an unusually slow day. Their only find today was Nalu R3CX and he was foraging all day. They went back later and the day and he was still out there.

Seems all the seals have moved on, things changed when the super surf came in. Hopefully they'll be back soon.

Rabbit Island

R3CX