December 4, 2025 Thursday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 9:10 am to 12:18 pm and a NOAA team went out to the island today. Mark and Rob did a survey and some bleaching.   They were able to bleach four of the six seals that were out there today.

At the back of the Lanikai side of LPB in the shadows was RU70: weaner size,  female belly U70 tag. She is RJ30 Wailea's Mokokua Nui 2025 pup. (formerly PO13).

There were three seals on the 1BS side of LPB. There was some

interaction among three before they entered the water at 9:23 am. Marilyn saw them later near the 2BS for a short time. Then at 9:57 am, one of the seals hauled out on the Makapuu side of 3BS and then the two other seals hauled out to her.

The three seals were:

RQ32: sub-adult to adult size, light female belly, two red tags and a small dark scar on the right side of her face. She was born on Molokai. She has been seen on the east side several times. Marilyn suspects she was the  the A/F reported yesterday. She got an N on

bleach on her left hip, unfortunately she moved before she got a N60 bleach.

RK24 Bruno: adult size, newer coat, light to medium gray male belly, lower lip scar and two red tags. He got a N33 bleach on his right side.

R7AF was the third seal of the group: adult male, darker male belly, two red tags. He later relocated to the RRB channel where the NOAA team was able to apply N61 bleach on both of his hips.

Near the waterline between 3BS and SRI was an unknown adult labeled Adult Male: large adult size, dark mottled gray male belly, no

tags. He got N32 bleach on both hips.  Maybe NOAA can identify him from their photos when they get back to the office. He almost got a flex tag but he moved before they could get to it.

Near the SRI channel was RU38: older weaner size and shape, yellow female belly and two red tags. She did not cooperated in the efforts to bleach her, so no bleach.

Well Team R&B had an unusually slow day. Their only find today was Nalu R3CX and he was foraging all day. They went back later and the day and he was still out there.

Seems all the seals have moved on, things changed when the super surf came in. Hopefully they'll be back soon.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

December 3, 2025 Wednesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:10 to 1:54 pm and there were four seals seen during that time.

A Weaner Unknown next to seaweed covered rocks down from 3BS: weaner size, older coat, yellow belly. no info on sex or tags.

Between 3BS and SRI were three seals:

Adult Male: large adult size, dark gray coat, male belly, did not see tags.

Adult Female: small adult size, very light female belly, at least one red tag.

RK24 Bruno: adult size, mottled gray male belly, two red tags, lower lip scar.

Team R&B had an interesting day, in that all the critters they observed today were in the water.

First found one seal foraging which was Nalu R3CX and he was out there catching fish.

Then over by the outfall they watched three seals foraging. They

waited and tried to get IDs but no such luck today. They suspect it could be RP30, RL12 and another, but they just don't know.

They were able to capture something spectacular today. Every season they hope to capture a while breaching and today was that day. There was a mom and calf, not to mention dolphins out there too.

Rabbit Island

R3CX

Unknowns - who are you ??

whales !!!

December 2, 2025 Tuesday's Dailies

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

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:20 to 2:00 and there were three seals seen during that time.

On LPB was a Juvenile Male: juvenile to weaner size, light yellow male belly and two red tags.

At Middle Cliff there was a Weaner Female: weaner size, light yellow female belly with two red tags.

On the rock flats Lanikai side of SRI was an Adult Female: chubby adult size, gray female belly, scar on lower neck/upper chest and

another scar on middle of left chest, un sure about tags. Marilyn suspect this is the same A/F she saw yesterday.  Marilyn wonders if this could be RK38 Hali'a, Aukai's 2018 Rabbit Island pup. As far as Marilyn knows she has not pupped. Marilyn has reported her before as being "robust" in size.

Team R&B first find was RH76 Kala.  She was already up on the rocks. When they checked later in the day Kala had moved to the pond and was alone. There was some seaweed by her snout.

Team R&B saw a poor pigeon with a blow dart in his neck. They tried to catch it but it got away and flew up in a tree.

On the other hand they were happy to see a seal coming in from the town side from far out. As it got nearer, that the seal was R3CX Nalu. They never saw him land.

At another west side location they spotted a seal snoozing on the rocks. The seal was looking fat and comfy. It never moved to show a tag, but they knew it was RL70 Leina. They saw the scar over her chest and the white nails, not to mention she's fat.

Next stop they saw a chubby seal on shore and folks were set up on the beach just 20 feet from her. They thought it was a sea lion. hmmmmmm.

Team R&B was happy to see that his lovely was RL12 Aukai.

Way to the right on shore was RP30 Puka, he was alone resting. They saw his tag and the scar on the right side.

Rabbit Island

RH76

R3CX

RL70

RL12

RP30