Spindle Rock/N Blakely Island
Harbor Seal · 2 reports from 2 observers, July 2025 to April 2026
In the atlas
Site 11.35 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.
Intertidal areas around Spindle Rock.
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 · 2 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 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.
- Apr 18, 2026 · Harbor Seal · saramontourlewis on iNaturalist · 37 m away · source
- Jul 10, 2025 · Harbor Seal · summersummer on iNaturalist · 397 m away · source
Of 2 reports, 2 state a location accurate to within 500 m, and 2 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Black Rock · 5.3 km · harbor seal
- Shag Rock · 5.5 km · harbor seal
- Leo Reef · 5.6 km · harbor seal
- East Sound/Twin Rocks · 5.6 km · harbor seal
- Willow Island · 5.7 km · harbor seal
- Pointer Island · 5.7 km · harbor seal