June 10, 2025 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:24 to 2:20 pm and there were three seals seen during that time.

Between 3BS and SRI were the two weaners:

Weaner U38 (po4) was initially in the shallow nearshore waters and looked like she was probably picking up items and mouthing them. She was identified by her weaner size, shape and coloration, light female belly and two red tags.

Snoozing near the water line was weaner U24:(po3): weaner size, shape and coloration. light male belly and two red tags.

When U38 started hauling out, U24 started moving away and up the beach. Marilyn thought maybe he was afraid of her. She continued up next to him, but there was no real interaction. Then U38 went past him and both went into the snoopy snooze pose. U38 has re-entered the nearshore waters just before Marilyn left.

Initially in the surge channel at RRB was an Unknown Sub-adult: small sub-adult to large juvenile size, light yellow ventral, unsure about sex and at least one tag on the RRF. Later the Unknown Sub-adult moved out of the channel onto the rubble beach.

Team R&B's first find was at Kahe. They found RG28 Lefty sleeping alone in a small pond.  They noted all his scars, and it reminded them of him mom R028 Pohaku.

After much searching, they were feeling frustrated and was hoping they would see at least one dolphin.  Well the universe heard them, much to their shock one single dolphin appeared. It also put on a show by jumping at least 20 times, just for them.

They kept looking and at the very last stop of the day there was one more seal. There was RW02 PvKauai alone basking in the hot sun.

Rabbit Island

RG28

dolphin

RW02

June 9, 2025 Monday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:41 to 1:52 pm and only the weaners were on island today.

Weaner RU24 (po3) was snoozing on the rock flats of Middle Cliff. He never gave Marilyn a full view of his male belly, but she is reasonably sure it was him: weaner size, shape and coloration, male belly and two red tags.

Near the waterline between 3BS and SRI was weaner RU38 (po4):

weaner size, shape and coloration, female belly and two red tags.

Team R&B arrived at pokai and found big boy RH32 Kaale sleeping alone at the zen area. They notices he has a small cut on his lip, might be from a small hook or maybe a fight. (Only Kaale knows).

They kept watching over the area for other seals. Sure enough they spotted two in the water. One was huge, clean coat and one tag. The seal never landed and they couldn't make an ID.

The other seal had a lot of green on its coat, and no tags.  They lost sight of the two and checked on Kaale who was still resting.

Then they saw a seal coming into the area where Kaale was resting. It was the green seal, slowly approaches Kaale. Kaale wasn't having it, he started barking and charged the green seal.

They both took off like torpedoes. They were too fast for Team R&B and they couldn't make the ID on the green seal. They didn't see any markers so they reported it as an Unknown Male.

They spent a lot of time out there today looking for seals. They were

happy to see another seal and thankfully they were able to ID R3CX Nalu. He was moving fast, looking around and then he was gone.

They spotted a seal coming into the zen area and it was RH32 Kaale returning to his spot.

To finish off their day they did spot an eagle ray out in the water.

 Rabbit Island

RH32

UUs

green uu and RH32

green uu

R3CX

RH32 

June 8, 2025 Sunday's Dailies

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Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:17 to 1:58 pm and there were five seals seen during that time.

There were two seals near each other about 20 feet Lanikai Side of the 2BS.

Sub-adult Female: sub-adult size, tannish green female belly, one tag on RRF. This might be R04P who was seen on RI on 6/5/2025.

Next to the SF was an Adult Male: small adult size, older dark coat with some green on his male belly, and two red tags. This might be RM31 Kai, but Marilyn wasn't sure.

Among waterfront rocks in the Middle Cliff area was weaner RU24 (po3) weaner size, shaep and coloration, light male belly and two red tags. Marilyn wondered how seals can sleep in such positions.

Along the waterline between 3BS and SRI was weaner RU38 (po4) weaner size shape and coloration, light female belly and two red tags.

Out on RRB was a Juvenile Female: juvenile size, tan female belly, unsure about tags.

Team R&B braved the crowded beaches again today. They walked for two hours and waited for a seal to show up.

From afar they saw a seal coming in fast. The seal was looking at the seal inlets and finally found a spot to haul up. It was R3CX Nalu. He was alone and spent the day snoozing.

Sadly the only other thing they found was a white tip shark that was deal on the rocks.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

June 7, 2025 Saturday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:55 am to 1:30 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

Between 3BS and SRI were two seals:

RU38 (PO4): weaner size, shape and coloration, two red tags and light female belly. She has obviously relocated from LPB to the 3BS area.

Adult Male 1: adult size, darker coat, male belly and two red tags. Marilyn believes this might be RM31 but couldn't confirm.

Behind the SRI inlet were two more seals:

Adult Male 2: sub-adult to adult size, light yellow green male belly and two red tags. Marilyn believes this might be R7AF, but again she couldn't confirm.

RU24 ((PO3): weaner size, shape and coloration, light male belly and two red tags.

Team R&B started this beautiful day out and about with all the crowded beaches filled with people and their dogs.

Their first seal hauled in at pokai, looked around, landed on the rocks and went to sleep. It was R3CX Nalu resting as the waves hit him. He eventually moved higher up.  After about 30 minutes he took off.

They got word from a friend that access surf was out at white plains beach and there was a seal. Of course they headed over and parking was crazy.  When they got out to the beach there were some kids at the ropes of the SRA throwing rocks at the seal.  Team R&B let them know it wasn't cool.

Then there were the other folks clapping their hand making noises to get the seals attention. Team R&B let them know it was best to let the seal rest. The seal was the lovely Lei Ola RH48 positioned under the fence line. She was getting hit by the waves and then kept moving in the direction of the kids. 

Then Team R&B heard a dog barking and growling. The dog was on a leash trying to bite at the boys near by. The kid who owned the dog held the dog back but it kept pulling.

Then they owner brought the dog over to the area where Lei Ola was resting. Team R&B notified some of the guys they know, and they came over to talk with the dog owner.  It was a bit unnerving, after that Team R&B called it a day.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

RH48