October 21, 2025 Tuesdays Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:18 to 2:10 pm and there were five seals seen during that time.

Initially near the cliff at the back of the middle of LPB was a Weaner Unknown: weaner size, older coat, yellow belly (maybe female) and two red tags. If it is a female, it is probably RU38. The weaner moved down the beach to inspect the dead/dying bird on the sand.

Adult Male 1 was on the 1BS side of LPB: adult size, about 65%

molted with huge pieces of fur waiting to fall off, male belly and two red tags. This may be RK24.

At 12:46 pm Marilyn found that RQ44 Mahina had joined AM1 but soon headed away from him. She stayed in the general area. RQ44: sub-adult size, new coat, light female belly, did not see her tags.

Between 3BS and SRI was Adult Male 2: smaller adult sizze, old coat with a fair amount of green, male belly and two red tags. AM2 has started to molt is about 10%/

At 1:07 pm Marilyn found that a Juvenile Male had hauled out on the

rock flats on the RRB side of SRI. Juvenile size, new coat, two red tags and light gray male belly. Marilyn thinks this is the same slender JM  she has been seeing  for the past week.

Team R&B's first find was R3CX Nalu foraging alone on the jetty side of pokai. They saw two more seals on the Rest Camp side.  Nalu disappeared early from pokai, but around noon he was at Makaha. He is still molting.

From afar they saw seals foraging on the rest camp side. There were

times the two were fighting. Team R&B made their way over and spotted the two seals. They were surprised to ID Aukai RL12 and she was with RG32. She was annoyed by him and fought back at him.  She moved to the Harbor side, and RG32 kept looking for her. He found her again and came close to shore but then headed further out.

Lastly they spotted a seal foraging just off the outfall area.  There was only one fisher out today. The seal never landed and Team R&B didn't have much to work with. It was reported as an Unknown Adult.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

RL12

RG32 & RL12

RG32

Unknown Adult

October 20, 2025 Monday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:40 to 2:!5 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

Initially alone was Adult Male 1: smaller adult size, old coat with a fair amount of green, green male belly and two red tags.

At 1:03 pm, RQ44 hauled out near AM1 and they moved around a fair amount. RQ44: sub-adult size, new coat, light to medium gray female belly and three red tags.

Above the SRI  channel was Adult Male 2: large adult size, old coat with lots of fur ready to fall off, about 20-30% molted, male belly, two red tags. This might be RK24.

Out on RRB was a Juvenile Male: larger juvenile size, new coat, light male belly and two red tags. He moved clear up to the cliff and had his head in a small cave. HE later returned to near the RRB channel.

Team R&B first find was Miss Kala RH76. She was on shore and alone. She stayed all day, went around the corner and then moved back to her spot. Later in the afternoon she left.  It appears Kala has

gained lots of weight and many scars.  

Team R&B shared a beautiful picture of a native flower you don't get to see everyday.

Out by rest camp they spotted RH48 Lei Ola foraging. Then they saw another seal which turned out to be RG32, ID'd by the scar on his head. He kept chasing after Lei Ola. She kept swimming trying to out run him.

Then there was poor R3CX Nalu, molting, looking like a mess, but still out there foraging. He for sure is moving a lot slower.

At Kahe they spotted a seal moving pretty quickly. They could see it was RH32 Kaale who was heading to the outfall area.  The fishers had big poles out and were using a large green float to float the line out. 

Team R&B saw another seal, but couldn't get an ID other than it had a clean coat.

From afar they saw a seal onshore at Makaha.  Then they saw two more seals so they made their way over.  The two seals together were

R3CX Nalu with RG32.  Nalu appears to be about 45% molted.

Further down was a seal alone. They went and were thrilled to see it was Lei Ola RH48. She is HUGE!! No wonder with all that foraging.  There were a couple of people sitting close by, but thankfully Lei Ola stayed and got some rest.

Rabbit Island

RH76

RG32

RG32 & RH48

R3CX

Unknown Adult

RH32

RG32 & R3CX

RH48 HUGE!!

October 19, 2025 Sunday's Dailies

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Marilynn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:25 to 1:59 pm and there were five seals seen during that timee

Initially on the 1BS side of LPB were two seals:

Adult Male 1: large adult size, older coat, about 25% molted, male belly and two red tags.

Initially up on the edge of the berm was TempN25: sub-adult size, new coat, light male belly, no tags and a shallow pit scat at the base of LFF.

RQ44 Mahina started out between 1BS and 2BS. She left and relocated to LPB. RQ44: sub-adult size, new coat, medium gray female belly and three tags. When she moved to the middle of LPB, she seemed fascinated by a Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick/fledging that was on the beach. She moved clear around it.

At some point TempN25 joined RQ44, then they went into the water for a short time and were joined by AM1 and then they all hauled out again.

Near the SRI channel was Adult Male 2: small adult size, old brown coat with green, tannish-brown male belly and two red tags.

On the rock flat between SRI and RRB was a Juvenile Male: juvenile size, new coat, light male belly and two red tags.

Team R&B spotted Miss Lei Ola RH48 at pokai. She was very busy this morning foraging. Her beau R3CX Nalu was out there but he was very slow to catch up with her.  While observing Nalu, they could see that he couldn't catch up with her, His coat is really green, and he might be starting his molt.

From afar they saw a male haul out at tracks. They couldn't see any tags, and can't confirm its ID,

although they suspect it might be RL20.

Also they saw an adult seal foraging off tracks area, but couldn't make an ID. Unfortunately they weren't able to any decent photos.   

While heading to another location a man stopped them and kept pointing to the beach.  They pulled over and were happy to find a nice clean coated seal. Initially they thought the tag read 3u, but when they checked their photos a little closer, they realized it was RP30. Looks like the "O" resin is wearing done and looks like a "U".

Lastly late in the day they found two seals at Makaha. When they went to check it out they discovered Nalu R3CX and confirmed he is molting.

The other seal was an adult, green coat, two tags, but not easily readable due to the sand. They believe this is RW02 PvKauai.

Rabbit Island

RH48

R3CX

Unknown Male

RP30

R3CX molting

R3CX w/ male ??? RW02

?? RW02 ??