Protection Island, Kanem Spit
Harbor Seal, Northern Elephant Seal · 39 reports from 22 observers, May 2010 to September 2026
In the atlas
Site 07.05 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: harbor seal, northern elephant seal · 100 to 500 animals · used mainly at low tide.
On beach and spit areas around Kanem Spit. Nursery area.
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 · 22 reports
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Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them; the grid shows the last 12 years, and there are earlier reports.
Northern Elephant Seal · 17 reports
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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.
- Sep 3, 2026 · Harbor Seal · areejs on iNaturalist · 114 m away · source
- Sep 3, 2026 · Harbor Seal · areejs on iNaturalist · 121 m away · source
- Aug 12, 2026 · Northern Elephant Seal · lizard-enjoyer on iNaturalist · 138 m away · source
- Aug 12, 2026 · Harbor Seal · lizard-enjoyer on iNaturalist · 337 m away · source
- Apr 21, 2026 · Harbor Seal · marin43158 on iNaturalist · 66 m away · source
- Apr 18, 2026 · Northern Elephant Seal · llillbird on iNaturalist · 79 m away · source
- Aug 24, 2024 · Harbor Seal · laureldoc on iNaturalist · 350 m away · source
- Apr 2, 2024 · Northern Elephant Seal · connk on iNaturalist · 171 m away · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · liamragan on iNaturalist · 111 m away · source
- May 10, 2023 · Northern Elephant Seal · brooklyyn on iNaturalist · 106 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · arodris on iNaturalist · 327 m away · source
- Feb 23, 2022 · Harbor Seal · estehr on iNaturalist · 71 m away · source
- Feb 23, 2022 · Northern Elephant Seal · estehr on iNaturalist · 65 m away · source
- Oct 8, 2021 · Harbor Seal · jbecky on iNaturalist · 210 m away · source
- Oct 8, 2021 · Harbor Seal · jbecky on iNaturalist · 482 m away · source
- Sep 1, 2021 · Northern Elephant Seal · apatia on iNaturalist · 51 m away · source
- Aug 7, 2021 · Harbor Seal · galxe on iNaturalist · 360 m away · source
- Jul 21, 2021 · Harbor Seal · ash2016 on iNaturalist · 116 m away · source
- Nov 12, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 311 m away · source
- Nov 12, 2019 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 70 m away · source
- Sep 19, 2019 · Harbor Seal · estehr on iNaturalist · 82 m away · source
- Sep 19, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · estehr on iNaturalist · 60 m away · source
- Aug 2, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · oliverpatrick on iNaturalist · 152 m away · source
- Jul 28, 2019 · Harbor Seal · fluffyinca on iNaturalist · 216 m away · source
- Jul 22, 2019 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 39 m away · source
- Jul 22, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 64 m away · source
- May 3, 2019 · Harbor Seal · kurtsteinbach on iNaturalist · 72 m away · source
- Apr 14, 2019 · Northern Elephant Seal · larsonek on iNaturalist · 195 m away · location approximate (±697 m) · source
- Jul 7, 2018 · Northern Elephant Seal · mo_monocots on iNaturalist · 115 m away · source
- Jul 7, 2018 · Harbor Seal · mo_monocots on iNaturalist · 105 m away · source
- Apr 15, 2018 · Northern Elephant Seal · britak on iNaturalist · 71 m away · location approximate (±2064 m) · source
- Jul 29, 2017 · Northern Elephant Seal · apatia on iNaturalist · 56 m away · source
- Jul 13, 2015 · Harbor Seal · estehr on iNaturalist · 128 m away · source
- Jul 13, 2015 · Northern Elephant Seal · estehr on iNaturalist · 33 m away · source
- Feb 24, 2015 · Northern Elephant Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 73 m away · source
- Feb 13, 2015 · Northern Elephant Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 48 m away · source
- Jun 18, 2014 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 394 m away · source
- Jun 7, 2012 · Harbor Seal · grcilis on iNaturalist · 466 m away · source
- May 7, 2010 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 64 m away · source
Of 39 reports, 29 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 8 state no accuracy, and 38 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Protection Island, Violet Spit · 2.9 km · harbor seal, northern elephant seal