Cerrantes Rocks
Steller Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Northern Elephant Seal · 8 reports from 8 observers, November 2019 to May 2026
In the atlas
Site 6.32 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.
Intertidal ledges and reef areas at Cerantes Rocks.
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.
Steller Sea Lion · 4 reports
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Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Harbor Seal · 2 reports
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Northern Elephant Seal · 2 reports
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| 2019 | 2 |
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.
- May 18, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · stirnlappenbasilisk on iNaturalist · 155 m away · source
- Apr 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · journal_of_josh on iNaturalist · 360 m away · source
- May 14, 2025 · Steller Sea Lion · drclements on iNaturalist · 307 m away · source
- Feb 3, 2024 · Harbor Seal · kaylaneumann on iNaturalist · 157 m away · source
- Jun 3, 2023 · Harbor Seal · jjl-feuerfreunde on iNaturalist · 200 m away · source
- Sep 26, 2022 · Steller Sea Lion · nivekydennek on iNaturalist · 241 m away · location approximate (±3020 m) · source
- Nov 10, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · speckledfrog on iNaturalist · 201 m away · source
- Nov 10, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · earthlywise on iNaturalist · 194 m away · source
Of 8 reports, 7 state a location accurate to within 500 m, and 7 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.