October 7, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn hiked Ka'ena Point today from 8:32 am to 12:30 pm and saw six seals during that time.

First find was RL47 Kamakana: adult size, two red tags, new coat, male belly. He looks healthy. (He is RB12 Sadies' 2019 Rabbit Island pup).

Next there was RW02 PvKauai, but he was on a side of a berm and Marilyn wasn't able to get a good photo.

Then there were two seals a short distance from each other:

R330 Squinty: adult size, male belly, older coat and 3CB tag. 

RP96 Loli'i: sub-adult to adult size, male belly and P96 tag.

In the NAR were two seals:

The first one was visiting all the spots from Ka'ena's pool to the main pool: adult size, old coat, male belly, pit scar at the base of LFF and scar over left eye. This was RN04 Kainoa, whom Marilyn has not seen in aged. He is RB12 Sadie's 2013 Rabbit Island pup.

The final seal was mostly submerged, but she believes this was Lefty RG28. (no photos)

Team R&B started on the west side, they had no idea that a seal was below them in the rocks. It was their beloved RH76 Kala who is about 60% molted. She was alert as if there was another seal and there was.

They spotted another seal to the right far out foraging. It was Lei Ola RH48 and she was alone today. 

They also so another seal foraging, it was sub-adult size, clean coat, tags but unsure of sex. It was reported as an unknown sub-adult.

After an appointment they headed over to plains and found RG89Huakai high up on shore. They hurried to try and see another seal way down. Much to their surprise on shore further down was R416 looking green and plump. He left the area about 3 pm after throwing up.

Their last find was at nimitz, it was late and the traffic was bad. The seal was R407 Kawika on shore very alert and moving about. There

were a couple people in the area, they were walking down, but then turned around. R407 is well into his molt and will soon be the handsome male that he is, but for now he's a raggedy mess.

Ka'ena Point

RH76

RH48

Unknown Sub-adult

KG89

R416

R407

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06/15/2021 Tuesday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Lesley, Melody and Team R&B💕.  Lesley's Ka'ena update is part two of the dailies. Lesley provided a two for one update. 

Melody provided us with a melody of Kaiwi and Loli'i (no pun intended LOL).  Seriously a slide show of her photos from April 26th birth to June 8th weaning/relocation.  

Team R&B once again found RL20 Kalua foraging and today they actually got a tag shot. Once again he never landed. I swear this kid going to haul out and be the size of Kaale.  They saw a second seal with a new coat and two red tags. The seal did not land but they are pretty sure it's Lei Ola.

When they did a recheck RL20 Kalua was still foraging, so not only is he going to be fat he's going to

be greener than green.  There were folks out in the water on their paddle boards following him, but thankfully he kept moving away wanting nothing to do with them.  And much to Team R&B's delight Lei Ola RH48 had landed. She is looking great, beautiful new coat and still needed to plump up after her molt.

At another west side location they found a huge male on the rocks alone. It was big ole boy from Molokai RN14 Kalani. He was in the same place as yesterday. Team R&B noted the place smelled of pee and poop. Seems between yesterday and today the poop didn't get washed away.

RL20 Kalua

RH48 Lei Ola

Lei Ola hauled out

RN14 Kalani

Slide show from 4/26 thru 6/8

06/11/2021 Friday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕.  We also got word from the NOAA Team and PO2 Loli'i has been tagged and official identification is RP96/P97. He was also fit up with a sat tag so NOAA can keep track of where the little buggah is located.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from about noon to 1:45, there were five seals on island during her observation.

On LPB was RP24 (P01) Mohala, she was ID'd by her size,

coloration, rear flipper tags, light female belly and NB on LFF.  She is looking healthy no signs of any problems with this weaner. She entered the water about 1:00 not long after Marilyn spotted an unidentified seal in the water off LPB.

Almost straight down from the 3BS was an U/J, juvenile size, older coat, lots of green on belly and no tags. Marilyn was unable to determine its gender. Most likely this is one of the untagged 2020 Rabbit Island pups. The UJ looks like it might be approaching it's first non-pup molt.  The UJ was briefly visited by a U/M. He only spent a few minutes and then went to check out Aukai and P04.

RL12 Aukai and P04 Manana started out in the water about 30 feet Makapuu side of the 3BS. The U/M stalked Aukai and P04 and stayed nearly until they hauled out onto the sand. The U/M stayed a bit longer and then entered the water. The UM was adult size, dark coloration with two tags.

Team R&B we out on the west side observing a few seal in the water foraging and fighting. They watched and was able to ID the three critters when they came around to haul out. Lei Ola RH48 hauled out first, followed by RH32 Kaale and then there was good ole Benny RE74. Benny was really wanting Lei Ola's attention but Kaale barked and he and Benny would fight. Benny tried a couple of different approaches, but he finally gave up and left. Kaale the young stud and Lei Ola landed and stayed together. 

In between all the posturing between the trio,  Team R&B did spot the little green kid RL20 Kalua out

in the water foraging.

Then to their shock they see another seal coming in, the seal was very cautious, looking and then pulled in and hid in the rocks. They were able to ID RH76 Kala, she must be hiding from all the males, and seems to be doing a good job.

At another west side location they spotted the dolphins out and of course there were people in the water with them.  Then they spotted a huge male on the rocks. There was RN14 Kalani who back on the westside and he is really big, big and fat.

RP24

UJ

Aukai and P04

UAM and RL12 and P04

Benny

Benny, Lei Ola and Kaale

Kaale RH32

RH48 Lei Ola

Lei Ola and Kaale

Kalua RL20

RH76 Kala

RN14 Kalani

dolphins