Possession Point Bouy
Steller Sea Lion, Eared seal, California Sea Lion, Steller sea lion, Harbor Seal · 18 reports from 16 observers, March 2017 to September 2026
In the atlas
Site 10.31 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 off Possession 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.
Steller Sea Lion · 12 reports
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| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Eared seal · 2 reports
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| 2026 | 2 | |||||||||||
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Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
California Sea Lion · 2 reports
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| 2017 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller sea lion · 1 report
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| 2025 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Harbor Seal · 1 report
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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.
- Sep 11, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · snowriddenwolf on iNaturalist · 187 m away · source
- Aug 5, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · acra36 on iNaturalist · 133 m away · source
- Jun 15, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · quinn-k on iNaturalist · 176 m away · source
- Mar 21, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · jcochran1817 on iNaturalist · 237 m away · source
- Feb 20, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · graysenboehningfwc on iNaturalist · 200 m away · source
- Feb 14, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · socroc10 on iNaturalist · 167 m away · source
- Feb 14, 2026 · Eared seal · socroc10 on iNaturalist · 180 m away · source
- Feb 14, 2026 · Eared seal · socroc10 on iNaturalist · 109 m away · source
- Nov 9, 2025 · Steller Sea Lion · dualluc on iNaturalist · 198 m away · source
- Sep 18, 2025 · Steller Sea Lion · thatwindyplacetho on iNaturalist · 184 m away · source
- Jun 17, 2025 · California Sea Lion · elenakopacheva on iNaturalist · 178 m away · source
- May 26, 2025 · Steller sea lion · solomika on iNaturalist · 119 m away · source
- Sep 20, 2024 · Harbor Seal · rebekkahleighlablue on iNaturalist · 420 m away · location approximate (±4634 m) · source
- Jul 19, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · jaceysis on iNaturalist · 117 m away · source
- Jul 19, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · elizahir on iNaturalist · 115 m away · source
- Jul 18, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · fathertoba on iNaturalist · 158 m away · source
- May 11, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · oceanalertDefault on ocean_alert · 210 m away
- Mar 25, 2017 · California Sea Lion · wiebej on iNaturalist · 48 m away · source
Of 18 reports, 13 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 4 state no accuracy, and 18 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Scatchet Head Bouy · 4.1 km · California sea lion