June 30, 2026 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:35 to 2:40 pm and there were seven seals seen during that time.

There as an ever changing group of four seals on LPB or the rock flats Lanikai side of LPB.

There was a group of three seals on the rock flats soon after Marilyn started viewing including an Adult Unknown, Weaner Male, and an Unknown Unknown almost hidden in a crevice. All of these seals moved on to the back Lanikai side of LPB at some point. 

Initially at the back middle of LPB was a seal labeled Sub-adult Unknown. This seal appears to be molting but Marilyn never saw the ventral so she couldn't estimate the amount of molting.

Later all four seals were in a group on the left back of LPB including the A/U and S/U and two weaner males. 

At 1:10 pm Marilyn spotted RM26 Nohea and PO10 among the waterfront rocks about 2/3s of the way between the 1BS and 2BS. They had an extended nursing session and then the pup moved up and partially hidden by waterfront rocks.

At 2:11  pm Marilyn noticed that the weaner female RV50 had hauled out down from the 3BS: weaner size, female belly and three red tags.

Team R&B were very surprised to find Miss Kala RH76 on the west side.  She was resting in a little pond and there were a few tourist that informed Team R&B of the seal.  We were all hoping Miss Kala would be on her way to Rabbit Island. She is so big she is moving quite slow hauling up on the rocks.  

At another location they saw something on shore from afar. They headed over and found RU22 looking very green.

Stopping at Kahe they found Mr. Lefty RG28. It's been a while since they have seen him. He's looking good.

Once again from afar they spotted two seals at tracks. There were people around them, so Team R&B drove down. There they found RH48 Lei Ola with a male who had 2 red tags. They couldn't ID the male with so much sand, they thought maybe R3CX but can't be sure.

At electric beach they saw people focusing on something in the water. Team R&B kept looking and then saw two seals fighting. While fighting they kept going and out of sight. No ID on either , reported as unknown adults.

Team R&B finally made it out to the pup site at 1:30 pm. They had a busy start of the day on the west side. When they arrived they didn't see mom or pup at all. They asked a woman about them and she point way down to another area. They were near the first birth pond area swimming. They couldn't believe that was a man with his boy

swimming in the zoned off area. Team R&B looked for a volunteer but couldn't find any.

Mom and pup were coming towards the area after a while. PO11 is getting stronger day by day. Rocky is a good mom. She kept barking at the kid, come on lets go!

Team R&B saw that a volunteer arrived, and they asked if they should move the signs back as Rocky and pup were showing interest in landing. They offered to dig the holes again, so they waited.

They met a nice lady who was camping to the left and share photos of the pup. She was really touched by the photos of the birth. Team R&B advised not to go into the area as the mom is very aggressive, the woman appreciated the advice.

Then Team R&B see another lady in the zone with mom and pup. WHAT are people thinking. Team R&B alerted the volunteer and called out to the woman. The volunteer ran down but the lady went down took her pictures and left. 

Team R&B and volunteer made the zone better with ropes, arrow boards to go around.  Team R&B left the area as Mom and pup settled in for a nursing session. 

Rabbit Island

RH76

RU22

RG28

U/M

RH48 & UM

RH48 Lei Ola

2 Unknown Males

RH58 & PO11

Late Monday Post 6/29/26

Team R&B and I had a disconnect last night and I didn't see their email until this morning. Of course I have to post because its all about Momma Rocky and PO11.

Team R&B got to the pup site and there weren't too many people around. The seals were on the rocks sleeping after a feed.

PO11, Rocky's daughter woke up, galumphed to the end of the rocks, turned to look as mama as if to say, I'm going Mom! Rocky sonar went off and woke up to bark at the kid. She didn't stop, PO11 went into the water to explore. Checking out the seaweed, rocks and possibly tiny fish.

Then the kid headed back for another feed on shore. For some reason Rocky suddenly left into the water and of course PO11 followed with joy. 

Team R&B thought there might be another seal further out then closer to the site. The seal never landed and they weren't able to get a photo or ID.

Rocky took PO11 very quickly out of the zone, like 400 feet to the left. An area not protected. So Team R&B helped the volunteer move signs. Rocky kept going for an hour and half. Finally she landed waay to the left by the trees. The group was working nonstop to keep up with her.

Team R&B had a shovel to dig holes which helped a lot. A man who might have been one of the fishers came to help too. Okay finally Mom and Pup went to sleep. Team R&B left at 2 pm exhausted.  They were grateful for the mocha that Hiroko brought to them. 

Rocky & PO11

June 29, 2026 Monday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn. (I assume Team R&B fell asleep and didn't get their update done.)

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:29 to 2:40 pm and there were seven seals seen during that time.

At 1:33 pm, Weaner Male 1 hauled out at the back Lanikai side of LPB. The seal did roll over at some point and showed his male belly. He mostly snoozed.

On the 1BS side of LPB were two seals, same as yesterday: 

Weaner Male 2: recent weaner size, at least two red tags and light male belly.

Nearby was a Sub-adult Female: sub-adult size, lighter female belly and two red tags.

At 1:46 pm, Weaner Female RV50 hauled out to WM2 and the SF. The SF moved away from the WF. Later RV50 WF moved to the middle of LPB where she showed her female belly.

On the Makapuu side of Middle Cliff RM26 and PO10 were hauled out. The pup nursed for an extended period of time. PO10 is putting on the pounds.

Almost directly down from the 3BS was a Sub-adult Unknown: sub-adult to adult size, old coat with mottled belly, sex undetermined, not sure about tags.

Rabbit Island

June 28, 2026 Yesterday's News 6/27/26

News from Marilyn's Ka'ena Point visit on Saturday:

I hiked/rode the Ka'ena Point trail with a friend yesterday. The weather was warm and windy. I did encounter rain on the drive to KP, but not while in the KP park.

We saw seven HMS during our trip.

From near the parking lot looking toward the point, we could RV36 E'eno playing in one of the inlets. Apparently he had been in the inlet near the parking lot earlier, but probably decided to move away because of all the tents, people and music in the parking lot.

Within the NAR, R330 "Squinty" was snoozing among rocks and not showing us much, but I did see his male ventral with mid-ventral small nb. He was just moving into a channel when we returned to check on him on the way out.

RL47 "Kamakana" was out draped over a rock in the pools Mokuleia side of Ka'ena's pool. He is fairly green and we could see his newer CC bite, although he did not show us his rear flipper tags. He also entered the water due to the rising tide when we saw him on the hike out.

On the rocks in the middle of the main pool at the point was R420 Kaipo: older mottled coat with some green, male belly, superficial partial CC scar forward of his penial hole and a deeper scar on the right side of the penial hole. He gave us a fully sprawled male view.

There was a HMS swimming in one of the channels in the NAR that we believe was RL08 "BamBamSquarePants" based on the visible CC scars we could see. We saw him head in the "runway" direction, but never saw him hauled out.

We visited RL42 Leia and her pup PO12 twice during the day. Mom and pup seem to be doing fine. PO12 was able to follow mom when the latter moved up the beach. The pup still has part of its umbilical cord.

RL42 & PO12

RL08

R420

RL47

R330

RV36