Sooke Harbor
Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion, Steller Sea Lion, Northern Elephant Seal · 47 reports from 32 observers, October 2018 to October 2026
In the atlas
Site 6.19 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: harbor seal · fewer than 100 animals · used mainly at low tide.
Sooke Harbor area.
The atlas maps this site at 2 points. The others: Intertidal area off Sooke Harbor..
This entry was extracted from the atlas's tables by machine and has not yet been checked against the printed page. Its coordinates are the atlas's, in a 1927 datum, and may sit up to 200 m from where a modern map puts them.
Reports
Pinniped sightings reported within 500 m of this point, nearly all from iNaturalist. A report here says someone saw seals or sea lions near a known site; it does not say which animals, or how many.
Harbor Seal · 38 reports
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| 2026 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| 2024 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 2022 | 2 | |||||||||||
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| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
California Sea Lion · 6 reports
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| 2018 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller Sea Lion · 2 reports
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| 2019 | 2 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Northern Elephant Seal · 1 report
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| 2023 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Photos from the reports. Each links to its source; the attribution is in the tooltip.
- Oct 1, 2026 · Harbor Seal · mferguson on iNaturalist · 279 m away · source
- Aug 20, 2026 · Harbor Seal · nataliegoldman on iNaturalist · 259 m away · source
- Jul 28, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ellaw2 on iNaturalist · 461 m away · source
- Jul 28, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ellaw2 on iNaturalist · 477 m away · source
- Jun 27, 2026 · California Sea Lion · daloonlover on iNaturalist · 293 m away · source
- Jun 20, 2026 · Harbor Seal · squidney65635 on iNaturalist · 198 m away · location approximate (±14345 m) · source
- Jun 20, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ubnabubba on iNaturalist · 291 m away · source
- Apr 26, 2026 · Harbor Seal · rebeccareaderlee on iNaturalist · 195 m away · source
- Apr 26, 2026 · Harbor Seal · leewarren on iNaturalist · 185 m away · source
- Apr 20, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ellaw2 on iNaturalist · 298 m away · source
- Apr 8, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ellaw2 on iNaturalist · 481 m away · source
- Oct 11, 2025 · Harbor Seal · s_lips on iNaturalist · 434 m away · source
- Sep 25, 2025 · Harbor Seal · ellamellapee on iNaturalist · 33 m away · source
- Sep 23, 2025 · Harbor Seal · greenmanonpark on iNaturalist · 230 m away · source
- Sep 17, 2025 · Harbor Seal · ellery_mf on iNaturalist · 247 m away · source
- Sep 6, 2025 · Harbor Seal · terryfic on iNaturalist · 212 m away · source
- Aug 24, 2025 · Harbor Seal · greenmanonpark on iNaturalist · 255 m away · source
- Aug 17, 2025 · Harbor Seal · cindykrow on iNaturalist · 379 m away · source
- Jul 20, 2025 · Harbor Seal · charlie-m on iNaturalist · 188 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2025 · Harbor Seal · kelpadelpian on iNaturalist · 414 m away · source
- Sep 14, 2024 · Harbor Seal · robidium on iNaturalist · 456 m away · source
- Sep 7, 2024 · Harbor Seal · leewarren on iNaturalist · 189 m away · source
- Sep 7, 2024 · Harbor Seal · leewarren on iNaturalist · 347 m away · source
- Sep 7, 2024 · Harbor Seal · rebeccareaderlee on iNaturalist · 289 m away · source
- Sep 7, 2024 · Harbor Seal · leewarren on iNaturalist · 249 m away · source
- Sep 7, 2024 · Harbor Seal · rebeccareaderlee on iNaturalist · 157 m away · source
- Mar 16, 2024 · Harbor Seal · laurabee44 on iNaturalist · 311 m away · source
- Jan 3, 2024 · California Sea Lion · asaxatalis on iNaturalist · 390 m away · source
- Dec 20, 2023 · Harbor Seal · laurabee44 on iNaturalist · 213 m away · source
- Nov 18, 2023 · Harbor Seal · prairieboy on iNaturalist · 289 m away · source
- Sep 2, 2023 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 225 m away · source
- Aug 22, 2023 · Harbor Seal · johndreynolds on iNaturalist · 224 m away · source
- Aug 22, 2023 · Harbor Seal · johndreynolds on iNaturalist · 269 m away · source
- Jul 29, 2023 · Harbor Seal · kcollin on iNaturalist · 260 m away · source
- Jun 3, 2023 · Harbor Seal · jackson_chu on iNaturalist · 248 m away · source
- May 11, 2023 · Northern Elephant Seal · joachimbertrands_ornis_birding on iNaturalist · 159 m away · source
- Jan 10, 2023 · California Sea Lion · jpmckenna27 on iNaturalist · 179 m away · source
- Oct 22, 2022 · California Sea Lion · aiva on iNaturalist · 298 m away · source
- Sep 13, 2022 · Harbor Seal · vlmanning on iNaturalist · 185 m away · source
- Sep 8, 2022 · Harbor Seal · booj on iNaturalist · 384 m away · source
and 7 earlier reports.
Of 47 reports, 33 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 13 state no accuracy, and 44 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Otter Point · 7.4 km · harbor seal