October 23, 2026 Friday's Dailies

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

Starting their day on the west side they found the lovely Miss Kala RH76. She was not alone today. With her was RM31 Kai. 

They were in the area for over an hour trying to ID two seals foraging from afar. One was an adult with lots of green and the other was also an adult but with a clean coat. Neither landed so they were reported as Unknowns.

A man with two kids came by and asked if they saw the seal? He

pointed to a spot. Team R&B were surprised since they were there for over an hour and didn't see him. They went to make the ID a male with lots of green and finally the cc scar on flipper, no tags determined it was R416 Makalii.

While they were busy trying to make IDs they saw another seal from afar, then noticed the seal was gone. Thirty minutes later they saw the seal was on shore again so they went to check. It's an older seal recently molted.... aha! it's R3CX Nalu. Nalu was resting peacefully.

Much to their surprise while on the west side they found RK72 Kekoa Alii. He was alone resting.

They made one last stop at nimitz, it was getting late and traffic was building. Up on shore far away from people was R407 Kawika. They were surprised to see him in a new spot. He looked calm and relaxed for a change.

RK72 & RM31

Unknown with green

Unknown clean coat

R416

R3CX

RK72

R407

plovers

October 23, 2026 Yesterday's Rabbit Island News

Brought to you by Marilyn:

Yesterday I viewed Rabbit Island from Makai Pier from 12:01 to 1:32 pm. Then I had to leave to meet a water heater repair person at home.

There were six HMS seen on RI during my viewing session.

At the back of LPB was a weaner that I think was male: weaner size, light male (I think) belly and at least two red tags. He started out at the back of LPB

up next to the cliffs but later moved down to the Lanikai side of LPB about mid-beach. I think this is a male, but I could be wrong.

Initially on the berm in the middle of LPB was a seal that I believe was RK24 Wawamalu/Bruno: adult size, mostly molted and two red tags. He was there at 12:08 pm, but had disappeared by 12:27 pm when I looked again. At 12:30 pm. RK24 hauled out next to the Juvenile Female down from the 3BS. By 1:01 pm he had left the 3BS and then hauled out to the Weaner Female (WF) that was down from the 1BS sign (more below). I did see RK24's right rear scar, but did not get a photo.

The Weaner Female (WF) was down from the 3BS when I started viewing: weaner size, light yellow female (I think) belly and at least two red tags. As mentioned above she was later joined by RK24.

Down from the 3BS was the Juvenile Female (JF): larger juvenile size, old coat with lots of green and two red tags.

Out on RRB was a Sub-adult Female (SF): sub-adult size, recently molted with a light female belly and I saw at least one red tags.

October 22, 2026 Thursday's Dailies

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They got a late start today, but made it out to west side site and found Miss Kala RH76. She was alone snoozing at the zen pond area. The water was low today so there was more of her to see.

Still on the west side they noticed a seal on shore where the dog went after a seal a couple of days ago. Upon arrival the seal was gone and there were footprints close by, so they waited.  They spotted a shadow in the water, coming to shore. It was RP28 Wakea. He took his time hauling up, kept looking around and then went for it.

They saw a lady coming over and one of the homeless woman came too. The woman told the new lady about the seal and called it Pokahi, she said she raised this seal..... hmmmmmm.... Team R&B took the time and explained about Wakea, show them the video of the dog barking at Wakea. Told them about the 50 foot distance. Then Team R&B walked away, looked back and the lady was walking by RP28, near the shoreline. 

A big white dog appeared from the homeless camp to the left. It started backing a lot. IT got closer and closer, making Team R&B

nervous. They swung a stick and stamped their feet and the dog just stayed. So they ran towards it and the dog went away. Very nerve-racking.

Next stop they didn't see any seal at the site, but they did see dolphins. There was a couple on a board following along with the dolphins.

They found Mr. Kawika R407 at nimitz. There was a fishing poke

very close by him, but he was fine. The weekend will bring a lot more people and he may disappear, depending on the guests at the cabins.

While there they saw some birds trying to drink water from a shower head. They were pretty cute fighting for turns.

RH76

RP28

dolphins

R407

October 21, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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Their first find on the west side was the little green kid RV20. He seems fine and doing okay. No one was bothering him while they were there.

They checked back with him later in the day and he was still there.

Their second find was the lovely Miss Kala RH76. She was in the pond and hiding really good. While watching over Kala they saw a woman doing yoga on a board being filmed.

Next they spotted a seal on shore where the dog incident happened yesterday. They headed over and away from the house where the dog went was RP28 Wakea. They saw DLNR was talking to someone at the house. Good their looking into what happened.

While they were close to Makaha they saw a seal from afar so they drove over to ger a better look, but now there were two seals.

One was RL42 Leia and it took them longer to ID the other seal. The area has a lot of erosion which made it difficult to get closer. The other seal was a male that got washed off the rocks. As he approached RL42 they saw the scar on his head, it was R617.

They had a long day, but made one last stop at nimitz. There on shore
was R407 Kawika. It was a long walk out to the spot where he was resting. He was alone, resting in the sub. He's doing fine and his little plover buddy was also doing just fine.

RV20

RH76

RP28

RL42  & R617

RL42

R617

R407