West Point Bouy
Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion, Steller Sea Lion, Eared seal · 134 reports from 65 observers, January 2011 to October 2026
In the atlas
Site 10.27 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 10 animals · used at all tidal states.
On green bouy just off West Point.
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 · 73 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2022 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| 2016 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 1 |
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.
California Sea Lion · 42 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2020 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
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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 · 14 reports
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| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
| 2020 | 3 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Eared seal · 5 reports
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| 2024 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| 2020 | 1 | 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 3, 2026 · Harbor Seal · james_p_mitchell on iNaturalist · 231 m away · source
- Aug 3, 2026 · Harbor Seal · nickflang on iNaturalist · 472 m away · source
- Jul 15, 2026 · Harbor Seal · markhollysalvato on iNaturalist · 143 m away · source
- Jan 1, 2026 · Harbor Seal · tser on iNaturalist · 175 m away · source
- Jan 1, 2026 · California Sea Lion · tser on iNaturalist · 384 m away · source
- Dec 30, 2025 · Harbor Seal · tsirtalis on iNaturalist · 275 m away · source
- Dec 28, 2025 · Harbor Seal · sean579 on iNaturalist · 200 m away · source
- Nov 29, 2025 · Harbor Seal · rookbrightsilver on iNaturalist · 428 m away · source
- Nov 26, 2025 · Harbor Seal · derektbrown on iNaturalist · 234 m away · source
- Nov 12, 2025 · Harbor Seal · rscharf on iNaturalist · 387 m away · source
- Nov 11, 2025 · Harbor Seal · finadel on iNaturalist · 236 m away · source
- Oct 25, 2025 · Harbor Seal · bos__mutus on iNaturalist · 221 m away · source
- Oct 23, 2025 · California Sea Lion · richfisc on iNaturalist · 370 m away · source
- Oct 23, 2025 · California Sea Lion · botanicalpanicle on iNaturalist · 311 m away · source
- Oct 18, 2025 · California Sea Lion · finadel on iNaturalist · 263 m away · source
- Oct 12, 2025 · California Sea Lion · georgoshawk11 on iNaturalist · 326 m away · source
- Oct 11, 2025 · California Sea Lion · nelawoods on iNaturalist · 323 m away · source
- Oct 11, 2025 · California Sea Lion · citizenstuart on iNaturalist · 322 m away · source
- Oct 5, 2025 · California Sea Lion · joshuamorris on iNaturalist · 320 m away · source
- Sep 26, 2025 · Harbor Seal · mattfast6 on iNaturalist · 230 m away · source
- Jul 29, 2025 · Harbor Seal · davisprovan on iNaturalist · 424 m away · source
- Dec 1, 2024 · California Sea Lion · markrobinson on iNaturalist · 348 m away · source
- Nov 29, 2024 · Harbor Seal · tsirtalis on iNaturalist · 225 m away · source
- Jul 28, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · barbthomascall on iNaturalist · 234 m away · source
- Jul 15, 2024 · Eared seal · stevenc22 on iNaturalist · 172 m away · location approximate (±547 m) · source
- May 10, 2024 · Eared seal · lily-of-the-valley on iNaturalist · 212 m away · location approximate (±1042 m) · source
- Apr 25, 2024 · California Sea Lion · bear2022 on iNaturalist · 365 m away · location approximate (±1457 m) · source
- Apr 25, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · bear2022 on iNaturalist · 299 m away · location approximate (±647 m) · source
- Apr 9, 2024 · Harbor Seal · kenny420 on iNaturalist · 305 m away · source
- Apr 9, 2024 · Harbor Seal · burke_korol on iNaturalist · 311 m away · source
- Apr 9, 2024 · Harbor Seal · bruce on iNaturalist · 258 m away · source
- Mar 2, 2024 · California Sea Lion · ejain on iNaturalist · 237 m away · source
- Jan 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · mayesr11 on iNaturalist · 243 m away · source
- Jan 7, 2024 · Harbor Seal · billryerson on iNaturalist · 485 m away · source
- Jan 5, 2024 · Harbor Seal · billryerson on iNaturalist · 204 m away · source
- Jan 1, 2024 · California Sea Lion · cascadecat on iNaturalist · 309 m away · source
- Dec 30, 2023 · Eared seal · isaactnewell on iNaturalist · 331 m away · source
- Dec 26, 2023 · Harbor Seal · coobrien on iNaturalist · 209 m away · source
- Oct 8, 2023 · Harbor Seal · minewszelda on iNaturalist · 233 m away · source
- Aug 28, 2023 · California Sea Lion · minewszelda on iNaturalist · 230 m away · source
and 94 earlier reports.
Of 134 reports, 90 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 18 state no accuracy, and 86 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
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