Goose Island
Harbor Seal, Steller Sea Lion, Eared seal, California Sea Lion · 10 reports from 9 observers, August 2021 to November 2025
In the atlas
Site 12.14 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: harbor seal · 100 to 500 animals · used mainly at low tide.
Intertidal areas around north end of Goose Island.
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 · 5 reports
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| 2024 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller Sea Lion · 3 reports
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| 2021 | 2 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Eared seal · 1 report
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| 2025 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
California Sea Lion · 1 report
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| 2023 | 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.
- Nov 21, 2025 · Eared seal · emmalsturgill on iNaturalist · 137 m away · location approximate (±739 m) · source
- Aug 6, 2025 · Harbor Seal · sethalopod on iNaturalist · 109 m away · source
- Jul 11, 2025 · Harbor Seal · harper_johns25 on iNaturalist · 433 m away · source
- Apr 22, 2024 · Harbor Seal · alondracaro on iNaturalist · 175 m away · source
- Sep 16, 2023 · Steller Sea Lion · georgenaturephotos on iNaturalist · 133 m away · source
- Sep 16, 2023 · California Sea Lion · georgenaturephotos on iNaturalist · 133 m away · source
- Sep 12, 2023 · Harbor Seal · asherhiggins91 on iNaturalist · 487 m away · source
- May 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · andybridges on iNaturalist · 389 m away · source
- Aug 12, 2021 · Steller Sea Lion · chris_j_law on iNaturalist · 217 m away · source
- Aug 8, 2021 · Steller Sea Lion · ywcai on iNaturalist · 374 m away · location approximate (±5078 m) · source
Of 10 reports, 8 state a location accurate to within 500 m, and 10 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Deadman Island · 1.1 km · harbor seal
- Harbor Rock · 1.6 km · harbor seal
- Whale Rock · 1.7 km · harbor seal
- Rocks off Davis Point · 1.9 km · harbor seal
- Shark Reef · 2.1 km · harbor seal
- Mummy Rock · 2.3 km · harbor seal