Shilshole Bay Area
California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Steller Sea Lion, Eared seal · 105 reports from 35 observers, September 2011 to July 2026
In the atlas
Site 10.19 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: California sea lion · fewer than 100 animals · used at all tidal states.
On south tip of Shilshole Bay jetty.
The atlas maps this site at 2 points. The others: On floats and bouys of Shilshole Bay jetty..
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.
California Sea Lion · 82 reports
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| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | |||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 2024 | 26 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2023 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
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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.
Harbor Seal · 17 reports
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| 2026 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2024 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| 2020 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller Sea Lion · 4 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Eared seal · 2 reports
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| 2024 | 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.
- Jul 3, 2026 · Harbor Seal · sylvan_selkie on iNaturalist · 279 m away · source
- Jun 28, 2026 · Harbor Seal · joecolat on iNaturalist · 146 m away · location approximate (±2678 m) · source
- May 23, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · todhandrick on iNaturalist · 357 m away · source
- May 16, 2026 · California Sea Lion · digitalbio on iNaturalist · 422 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · scottveirs on iNaturalist · 344 m away · source
- Apr 24, 2026 · California Sea Lion · karorem on iNaturalist · 373 m away · source
- Apr 9, 2026 · Harbor Seal · medamaudee on iNaturalist · 256 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · Harbor Seal · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Apr 5, 2026 · Harbor Seal · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Mar 20, 2026 · California Sea Lion · ukiahhaiku on iNaturalist · 215 m away · source
- Mar 12, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · aruncusjones on iNaturalist · 120 m away · location approximate (±695 m) · source
- Mar 12, 2026 · California Sea Lion · aruncusjones on iNaturalist · 119 m away · source
- Feb 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · kellybirds on iNaturalist · 88 m away · source
- Jan 27, 2026 · California Sea Lion · ukiahhaiku on iNaturalist · 134 m away · source
- Jan 17, 2026 · California Sea Lion · digitalbio on iNaturalist · 108 m away · source
- Dec 29, 2025 · California Sea Lion · philip22663 on iNaturalist · 67 m away · source
- Dec 7, 2025 · California Sea Lion · ukiahhaiku on iNaturalist · 196 m away · source
- Nov 19, 2025 · California Sea Lion · erik_erts on iNaturalist · 60 m away · source
- Sep 21, 2025 · Harbor Seal · Scott Veirs on SalishSea.io · 115 m away
- Sep 21, 2025 · California Sea Lion · Scott Veirs on SalishSea.io · 327 m away
- Aug 6, 2025 · Harbor Seal · ukiahhaiku on iNaturalist · 303 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2025 · Steller Sea Lion · ukiahhaiku on iNaturalist · 276 m away · source
- Jul 26, 2025 · Harbor Seal · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 422 m away · source
- Jul 26, 2025 · Harbor Seal · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 243 m away · source
- Jun 28, 2025 · California Sea Lion · brittalisa on iNaturalist · 446 m away · source
- Jun 19, 2025 · California Sea Lion · drwalter78 on iNaturalist · 418 m away · source
- Jun 11, 2025 · California Sea Lion · noodle_arms on iNaturalist · 391 m away · source
- May 28, 2025 · California Sea Lion · noodle_arms on iNaturalist · 387 m away · source
- May 25, 2025 · Eared seal · lorax55 on iNaturalist · 421 m away · source
- May 21, 2025 · Steller Sea Lion · jessiethoreson on iNaturalist · 402 m away · source
- May 14, 2025 · California Sea Lion · noodle_arms on iNaturalist · 392 m away · source
- May 14, 2025 · California Sea Lion · digitalbio on iNaturalist · 471 m away · location approximate (±1158 m) · source
and 65 earlier reports.
Of 105 reports, 85 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 17 state no accuracy, and 104 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
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- Meadow Pt Bouy · 2.1 km · California sea lion
- West Point Bouy · 2.8 km · California sea lion
- Yellow ‘SG’ Bouy · 4.3 km · California sea lion