June 6, 2025 Friday's Dailies

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

Marilyn noted a correction from yesterday's report. The young female was R04P not RQ4P.

Today she viewed Rabbit Island from 1:52 to 3:19 pm and there were three seals seen during that time.

When she first arrived there were two seals about 30 feet apart:

Adult Male: adult size, dark coat, male belly and two red tags. She wasn't sure if this was RM31 who was on island yesterday.

Near SRI was RU24 (PO3) weaner size, light male belly and two red tags.

At 1:59 pm, RU38 (PO4) hauled out on LPB; weaner size, light female belly and two red tags. She was doing the "snoopy" pose and giving rear flipper flexes.

Team R&B were out for quite awhile when they finally saw a seal on the restcamp side of pokai. They headed over and looked for the seal in the water, but couldn't find it.

They went back to the area at the bay and there on the rocks was a seal. It was their boy Nalu R3CX. He must have just got there, since he wasn't there earlier.

Over at Kahe they spotted a seal from afar on the rocks, along with several fishers on the rocks.

They headed over and found RL20 Kalua in a small pond, alone and snoozing. They fishers were all okay and eventually left the area.

Team R&B were also treated to the dolphins doing what they do best.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

RL20

dolphins

June 5, 2025 Thursday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 10:25 am to 12:58 pm and there were five seals on island today. Also a NOAA team made their way out today to tag the weaners.

Just hauled out onto LPB were two seals: 

RM31 Kai (RL42's 2020 male pup) sub-adult size, older coat, male belly and two red tags. This is first time that they are aware of his being on this part of the island. 

Nearby was female weaner PO4 who is now tags with U38 and U39.

She has been with a sub-adult to adult male the last few day which Marilyn now assumes has been RM31. After PO4 was tagged she entered the water, but later hauled out on the rock flats on the Lanikai side of LPB.

Alone about 20 feet of the middle cliff side of 3BS was male weaner PO3. He got his U24 and U25 bling. He then moved down near the water front rocks, but did not enter the water.

About 50 feet on the SRI side of 3BS were two seal together:

Sub-adult female RQ4P Manana (RL12 Aukai's 2021 pup) NOAA had gotten a temporary 215 roto tag on her while she was still nursing, and she never got her permanent tags. Fortunately her 215 Roto tag is still attached, so the team was able to ID her.

Next to RQ4P was a sub-adult male R7AF. NOAA believes, he may be one of the 2020 male RI pups who did not get tagged because of covid. R7AF got 7AF and 7AG tags when he had to be captured for a hook removal. 

The NOAA team was preparing to give RQ4P her permanent tags, when RM31 showed up and checked out PO3/RU24 and then galumphed over to RQ4P and R7AF and pursued the former into the water. So plans to tag her got scrapped. 

Team R&B had an appointment today so they got a late start in their searching for seals. When they finally made it out to pokai they found two seals at the seal inlet. There

was RH32 Kaale on the rocks edge and the other seal was R3CX Nalu in the shallows.

R3CX Nalu would slither off and Kaale RH32 stayed for a bit.

Nalu went over to the next inlet, hauled up, and looked around. He then began to rub his body on the rocks in the shallows. Rolling over and over then slithered off and they did not see him again.

Team R&B did note they had watched over Nalu and they did not see any hook or trailing lines.

Rabbit Island

RH32

 RH32 & R3CX

R3CX

June 4, 2025 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:20 to 2:25 pm and there were three seals seen during that time.

On the Lanikai side of LPB were two seals:

Weaner PO4: weaner size, shape and coloration. Marilyn never got a direct view of the ventral, but she is deeming this PO4 because PO3 was in the Middle Cliff area.

Sub-adult Male: sub-adult to adult size, older coat, male belly two red tags. Marilyn is reasonably sure this is the same seal with PO4 yesterday.

Near the beach in the Middle Cliff area was Weaner PO3: weaner size, shape and coloration and very light male belly. Marilyn noted she thinks PO3 is smaller than PO4.

Team R&B first find was at pokai. There they found RH32 Kaale at the zen area alone and resting. He is looking nice and fat and there were no signs of any hooks or line.

Then to their delight there was big fat Kala RH76 at her spot resting.  A strange guy came walking down towards her. They told him to keep his distance and thankfully he walked away.  They noted Kala is looking healthy and fat, no new markers on her.

Over at the outfall they saw a green seal foraging. Then they lost sight of it. They checked the area and saw that RL20 Kalua had hauled out. He is looking quite green and was resting on the rocks.

Then they spotted a seal, also very green, foraging by the snorkelers at pipes. Then they lost site of the seal. When they went to recheck on RL20, they saw a seal hauling up next to RL20. RL20 wasn't happy barking at the kid. They ID'd RP30 Puka, who continued to haul up anyway. 

Lastly at they went to recheck on Kala and Kaale. They were both still

there resting peacefully.

Then they happen to see an adult "green" seal foraging off by the restcamp area. The seal was too far out and it was later in the day.  They reported the seal as an Unknown Adult, althought they thought it might be R3CX since he's often seen out there.

Rabbit Island

RH32

RH76

RL20

RP30 &RL20

UA