Smith Island Area
Harbor Seal, Steller Sea Lion · 12 reports from 10 observers, March 2013 to August 2026
In the atlas
Site 07.07 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.
On beaches and rocks on south side of Smith Island.
The atlas maps this site at 2 points. The others: On scattered rocks along north side of Smith Island..
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 · 11 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.
Steller Sea Lion · 1 report
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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.
- Aug 29, 2026 · Harbor Seal · curette on iNaturalist · 208 m away · location approximate (±1330 m) · source
- Aug 15, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · stannotaman on iNaturalist · 367 m away · location approximate (±2446 m) · source
- Sep 5, 2025 · Harbor Seal · Scott Veirs on SalishSea.io · 170 m away
- Jun 1, 2025 · Harbor Seal · criminy on iNaturalist · 470 m away · location approximate (±681 m) · source
- Aug 13, 2024 · Harbor Seal · blobb on iNaturalist · 383 m away · source
- Jul 11, 2024 · Harbor Seal · steveansell on iNaturalist · 222 m away · source
- Jul 28, 2023 · Harbor Seal · nbrockamp on iNaturalist · 415 m away · location approximate (±681 m) · source
- Jul 13, 2023 · Harbor Seal · andybridges on iNaturalist · 239 m away · source
- Jun 15, 2022 · Harbor Seal · abe on iNaturalist · 188 m away · source
- Dec 1, 2016 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 121 m away · source
- Feb 24, 2016 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 59 m away · source
- Mar 15, 2013 · Harbor Seal · aquaticreserves on iNaturalist · 423 m away · source
Of 12 reports, 5 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 3 state no accuracy, and 11 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Minor Island Area · 1.1 km · harbor seal
- Minor Island Area · 1.7 km · harbor seal, northern elephant seal