May 17, 2026 Sunday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:29 to 2:15 pm and there were nine seals today.

Marilyn was surprised to find two mom and pup pairs on LPB. RK38 and PO4 joined MO3 and PO3 on the beach. 

Nearer the LPB channel was MO3 and her five week old pup PO3. They had an extended nursing session before moving up the beach and were essentially behind the other mom and pup.

RK38 Hali'a and her pup PO4 were closer to the shore on LPB. They

too, moved up the beach. Marilyn is reasonably sure she saw at least one tag on RK38. Mom and pup seem healthy.

RF34 Pua and her pup PO5 were again located between the 1BS and 2BS. They did enter the water for an extended swim. Later they hauled out a short time before Marilyn left for the day.

Between Middle Cliff and 3BS was Sub-Adult Female 1: sub-adult size, green female belly and two red tags.

Between 3BS and SRI was Sub-adult Female 2: sub-adult size, light female belly and two red tags.

Initially behind waterfront rocks on the RRB side of SRI channel was an Unknown Sub-adult. The seal briefly showed its belly, but Marilyn couldn't be sure show its reported as an unknown. Later the SU moved up closer to the cliff. No info on tags.

Team R&B started their day on the west side. Their first find was R3CX Nalu. He was on the rocks where Kala usually spends time. Then he moved into the pond area where she often sleep. Guess he is missing her. Then he moved into a crevasse  and was completely

hidden.

While in the area they spotted a seal swimming. The seal was coming into the area and it was RH76 Miss Kala. She came into seal inlet looked around, then cautiously hauled up to the zen area. Miss Kala is looking quite large.

They saw another seal swimming by but could not get an ID. They could see it was an adult with tags. The seal never landed so it was reported as an Unknown Adult.

Out on the water they spotted dolphins swimming about. Then they saw a fin moving really fast and realized it was a shark. That could be why the dolphins were going every which way.

Then they came across RG28 Lefty. He was alone resting in a pond. They were happy to see him.

Lastly they got word of a seal on the rocks. They headed over after waiting out the heavy rains, that lasted over an hour.  But it was worth the wait, they found on the rocks RP30 Puka. Then the waves washed him off and he started to look for a new spot. Eventually he gave up and left.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

RH76

Unknown Adult

shark

dolphins

RG28

RP30

January 31, 2026 Saturday's Dailies

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

Team R&B started their day at pokai. They spent about an hour waiting but no seals came. They did see the new sculpture that was put in the Heiau. It is for the navigators, the rich history of Pokai and the dog that protected the people.

The first seal they spotted was RN14 Kalani. He was alone on shore at electric beach. Well alone in that he was the only seal, there were lots of people.

They spotted three seals foraging in the pipes area.  They were able to ID RS32 and RL08 foraging together. It looks like RL08 was after RS32.

At Kahe they saw a seal swimming by. They walked down to find RG32 hauling out alone.

They not sure when the sela arrived but there were two on shore where people continue to pass all the time. Some stop and got really close to the seals. They were ID'd as RH32 Kaale and RP30 Puka.

When they looked again at electric beach they saw that RN14 was still there, but now he had company. RL08 was there with him.

They were done looking and stopped to watch the waves and whales. There were even a couple of dolphins for a minute.

In Makaha were two turtles on shore, one arrived while they were there. 

Sculpture and dedication at Pokai

RN14

RS32  & RL08

Trio

RS32

RG32

RH32 & RP30

RL08 & RN14

Honu

dolphin

whale