August 2, 2026 Sunday's Dailies

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

Marilyn only viewed Rabbit Island for a short time, between 11:41 am to 12:20 pm. There were six seals seen during that time.

Up from the LPB channel were RH76 Kala and PO13 who turned four weeks this past Saturday. Marilyn never got a full view of PO13 but it appears to be adding more pounds daily. Mom still looks plump and healthy.

About on-third of the way between the 1BS and the 2BS among the waterfront rocks was a Weaner Male: weaner size, light belly,probably male, and no info in the tags. The weaner was in the same position during Marilyn's viewing session.

Starting 40 feet on the Lanikai side of the SRI channel were three seals. They all moved next to the channel while Marilyn was there.

R7AF: adult size, old coat, male belly, two tags and applied N61 bleach.

Unknown Weaner: weaner size, two red tags, light belly but undetermined sex.

Sub-adult Unknown: sub-adult to small adult size, old coat with lots of green no info on tags.

The S/U was the first to move toward the LPB channel. then the weaner followed and then later R7AF. There was some interaction between between 7AF and the SU before they all went into snooze mode.

Team R&B were on the west side when they saw a couple of mocking birds.  They also found RP28 Wakea alone and resting. They watched him for a bit and realized he is hooked again. The hook is on the left side of his mouth, about a 1 1/2 inch hook that is visible, no line trailing. The last time he was hookedwas June.

Over a the outfall they spotted an Unknown Adult foraging. They could not make out any identifiable markings to help, other than an older coat with lots of green. 

They couldn't pass by the dolphins doing what they do best. They spent some time watching these amazing critters.

Next they headed over to plains and found RT06 Marvin in a big zone set up for him. They learned today that it was actually the son of  lifeguard that passed, who named him Marvin after his dad. Touching!

Marvin RT06 was chilling and resting peacefully. He had just hauled in after eating a fish just off shore.

They believe he's preparing to molt soon.

Rabbit Island

RP28

Unknown Adult

dolphins

RT06

August 1, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

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Marilyn made it out to Ka'ena Point today with a friend. They were out there between 8:30 am to 1 pm.

RL47 Kamakana was near the water down from Camp Erdman: adult size, old coat, male belly and L46 and L47 tags.

At BB, they found PO12 who apparently weaned overnight. Mom RL42 was no where to be seen.

PO12 was in the water when they first checked. Later when they returned she had again entered the water, but hauled out and was playing with a stick before going into snooze mode. Recent weaner size, female belly, obviously no tags yet, she looks healthy.

Among the rocks between BB and Lymans beach was RU56 Lehua: juvenile size, very green, female belly and U56 and U57 tags.

On the runway side of Ka'ena's Pool was R416 Makali'i: adult size, male belly, distinctive ventral scar and colored parches no tags.

On the runway was RW02 PvKauai: adult size, old coat, male belly and R76 tag.  There were no seals out at the point.

Team R&B first find was RP28 Wakea up on shore resting near the bath house. They were watching from afar when all of a sudden a big dog appeared with a long leash attached.

The dog went around the seal at first sniffing, RP28 awoke and dog started to around around the seal faster and getting close. RP28 started barking at the dog. The dog barked back, but RP28 kept moving around to scare off the dog and finally the  dog left, went under the trees by the tents.

Team R&B notified the hotline and sent photos let them know about the dog, they asked how many people were there? Bottom line there was one big dog bothering the seal.

Team R&B drove over and was able to ID RP28 Wakea. They looked her over and didn't see any bite marks or new wounds. She had moved up more. Team R&B went looking for the dog but didn't find it. They were shaken up by the whole incident.

At another location on the west side they were so happy to find another seal. The seal was very green with two tags P30/31. It's Puka ! He is so green got to be ready to molt soon.

Team R&B decided to check out plains. As they arrived a man stopped them and said there was a little seal earlier but wasn't sure if it was still there.

They didn't seen anything at Tower 2 but then saw a green seal at Tower 1.

It was RT06 Marvin and dis bugga is greener than ever.

There were lots of kids near the seal that kept entering the zone that the lifeguards put up. One of the lifeguards kept yelling at the kids to get back, move away from the seal. Then less than 2 minutes later they were back over and over.

Team R&B stayed for a while wondering if RT06 would react. Finally Team R&B called it a day, after the dog incident and now the kids who aren't listening. 

Ka'ena Point

RP28 & dog

RP28 resting

RP30

RT06

July 31, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:03 to 2:21 pm and there were eight seals seen during that time.

Out on the rock flats on the Lanikai side of LPB was Weaner Unknown 1: weaner size, no ingo on sex or tags. Marilyn thinks WU1 was the on that hauled out near RH76 and PO10 on LPB shortly before she left for the day.

RH76 Kala and her pup PO10 were near the LPB channel when Marilyn first arrived. Later they moved up the beach with the pup partially hidden behind mom. Then a weaner hauled out near them and the pup tried crawling over
mom.

On the 3BS of the Middle Cliff was Weaner Unknown 2: weaner size, at least two red tags, light belly, sex unknown.

About 40 feet on the Middle Cliff side of 3BS was an Adult Female: adult size, female belly about 80% molted with the ventral completely

molted and the dorsal about 30% molted. This AF entered the water and disappeared.

At 12:34 pm Marilyn realized that Weaner Unknown 3 had moved up from behind the waterfront rocks down from the 3BS: weaner size, three tags undetermined sex.

Between the 3BS and SRI was a Sub-adult Male: sub0adult size, male belly old coat with lots of green and two red tags

At 1:55 pm Marilyn noticed than a Unknown Unknown hauled out between the SRI and RRB. This might be the AF that disappeared earlier. The UU had at least one tag.

Near the RRB channel was a Juvenile Female: small juvenile size, old coat with lots of green, female belly and two tags. Marilyn is reasonably sure she's the same JF that she saw in that location on Wednesday.

Team R&B only had one sighting today at the outfall. There were two seals fighting in the water. One is very green with two red tags, the other was larger with one red tag. They were able to ID RP28 Wakea. A friend of theirs happened to be out in the area and saw both tags showing and hot the number. Team R&B couldn't come up with an ID for the larger greener seal with one tag.

Team R&B were treated to the dolphins putting on a show. They were jumping and in a large group. One thing that noted is their Ohana, they stick together all the time and disappear at the same time.

Rabbit Island

RP28 &UA

dolphins