August 12, 2026 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:02 to 2:18 pm and there were five seals seen during that time.

RH76 Kala and PO13 hauled out on LPB soon after Marilyn started viewing. At 12:38 pm Marilyn noticed Kala was alert towards the water. There was a seal swimming offshore by mom and pup. After the interloper left PO13 nursed and later went into snooze mode. TH76 still appears to have some reserves. PO13 is a porker and again showed her female belly.

Initially, two weaners were hauled out near each other up form the SRI channel. Marilyn is reasonably sure one of the weaners was RV50 because of the applied bleach on her upper left shoulder. Marilyn wasn't sure of the other weaners sex so it was reported as an Unknown Weaner.

At 1:01 pm Marilyn spotted a Sun-adult Female: sub-adult to adult size, new coat, female belly and at least one red tag. The SF and the two weaners were near each other for the rest of her viewing session.

Team R&B decided to start their day on the west side. Their first finds were a plover, a turtle and a HFD chopper shooting them a shaka. 

Finally they found a seal on shore with tourists hanging close by. The seal was a male and Team R&B hung out to try an make an ID. It wasn't until they got home looking at the photos they determined it was R416 Makali'i.

Next stop they spotted the same two seals foraging off the outfall. One of the seals was an adult female with lots of green on its coat. The

other seal was an adult with tags, other than that they had no other information. 

Heading over to plains they found RT06 Marvin closer to the fence line area. He was resting and his molt is about 65%.

Barb mentioned that she's been walking around with deep sadness over the news of the two deaths recently reported of two of our pup. It is heartbreaking for sure.

NOAA reported the recent deaths of two young male Hawaiian monk seals on Oahu's North Shore: a 3 month-old pup RV36 found entangled in an unattended fishing net near Mokuleia, and a 1 year old seal RU02. Umi;umi confirmed to have died from toxoplasmosis. 

Rabbit Island

Honu

R416

U/F

UU

RT06

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

June 9, 2026 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:10 to 1:15 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

NOAA had planned to go to Rabbit Island to tag the three weaners, but ocean conditions were not safe so their schedule for another day.  So the team went to Ka'ena Point and tagged PO6 E'ono, male who is now RV36 (tags V36/V37).

On Rabbit Island all the seals were on LPB near the surge channel. Marilyn is reasonably sure the two weaners that she could see were PO4 and PO5, both males. They moved some but mostly stayed near the channel.

Nearby was MO10 and her pup PO10. They had at least one nursing session and then the pup sort of wandered around. Both mom and pup seem healthy.

At 1:06 pm, the third weaner which Marilyn believes was PO3 female, hauled out of the channel near the other weaners, but by 1:13 pm, all of the weaners were gone. Presumably into the LPB channel.

Team R&B started on the west side. They were watching and saw a seal coming up on the rocks. It was none other than the big beautiful

RH76 Kala. She had lots of visitors today, so Team R&B hung out for a while. Even the Hawaiian Practitioners visited with her today.

Over at electric beach they spotted RU22 on shore and she was alone. There was a dog with a leash running loose. A big wave hit her hard, that she spun around, as if she had no control. After the hit she galumphed up the sand to higher ground.

Next they headed over to plains. There was only one seal on shore. RT06 was back and there was a nice zone set up for him.

Lastly they watched the dolphins doing what they do best, putting on a magnificent show.

Rabbit Island

RH76

RU22

RT06

dolphins