Whale Rock
Steller Sea Lion, Steller sea lion, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Eared seal · 127 reports from 81 observers, September 2014 to September 2026
In the atlas
Site 12.10 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 on Whale 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.
Steller Sea Lion · 114 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 2 | |||||
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | |||||||
| 2022 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| 2020 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2018 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2017 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 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.
Steller sea lion · 6 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2025 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
California Sea Lion · 3 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Harbor Seal · 3 reports
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| 2022 | 3 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Eared 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 24, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · lizzieloons on iNaturalist · 68 m away · source
- Sep 13, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · maggieeeee on iNaturalist · 112 m away · source
- Aug 28, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · anarico248 on iNaturalist · 228 m away · source
- Aug 15, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · llillbird on iNaturalist · 358 m away · location approximate (±2091 m) · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · melbar2022 on iNaturalist · 285 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · rjbaltierra on iNaturalist · 246 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller sea lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller sea lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller sea lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller sea lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller sea lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller sea lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sydstevenson on iNaturalist · 141 m away · source
- Aug 3, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · codylimber on iNaturalist · 211 m away · source
- Aug 3, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · codylimber on iNaturalist · 208 m away · source
- Aug 1, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · bookyen on iNaturalist · 160 m away · source
- Jul 23, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · mjandersen on iNaturalist · 252 m away · source
- Jul 14, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · kya98970 on iNaturalist · 481 m away · location approximate (±35335 m) · source
- Jul 12, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · kaeliswift on iNaturalist · 126 m away · source
- Jul 12, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · balanced_plants on iNaturalist · 370 m away · source
- Jun 26, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · moops33 on iNaturalist · 182 m away · source
- Jun 26, 2026 · California Sea Lion · moops33 on iNaturalist · 186 m away · source
- Jun 25, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · andygo1 on iNaturalist · 222 m away · source
- Jun 15, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · quinn-k on iNaturalist · 354 m away · source
- Jun 13, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · ben142 on iNaturalist · 230 m away · source
and 87 earlier reports.
Of 127 reports, 87 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 33 state no accuracy, and 125 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
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