Rock W of Yellow Island
Harbor Seal, Steller Sea Lion · 10 reports from 7 observers, August 2014 to July 2026
In the atlas
Site 12.34 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 on rocks and reef west of Yellow Island (USFWS ID 69).
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 · 6 reports
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| 2021 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller Sea Lion · 4 reports
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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.
Photos from the reports. Each links to its source; the attribution is in the tooltip.
- Jul 25, 2026 · Harbor Seal · nyxki on iNaturalist · 373 m away · source
- Jun 25, 2024 · Harbor Seal · bluehouseonthesalishsea on iNaturalist · 121 m away · source
- Jul 18, 2023 · Steller Sea Lion · fuscus on iNaturalist · 108 m away · location approximate (±3954 m) · source
- Jul 1, 2023 · Harbor Seal · electriclandlady on iNaturalist · 89 m away · source
- Jun 30, 2023 · Harbor Seal · electriclandlady on iNaturalist · 91 m away · source
- Apr 24, 2022 · Harbor Seal · chlorophilia on iNaturalist · 107 m away · source
- May 2, 2021 · Harbor Seal · taylor_justason on iNaturalist · 61 m away · source
- Oct 20, 2014 · Steller Sea Lion · hardygreen on iNaturalist · 175 m away · source
- Sep 15, 2014 · Steller Sea Lion · hardygreen on iNaturalist · 173 m away · source
- Aug 18, 2014 · Steller Sea Lion · hardygreen on iNaturalist · 175 m away · source
Of 10 reports, 8 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 1 state no accuracy, and 7 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Low Island · 652 m · harbor seal
- McConnell Island · 893 m · harbor seal
- Reef W of Cliff Island · 1.1 km · harbor seal
- Nob Island · 1.1 km · harbor seal
- Bird Rock/W of Crane Island · 1.6 km · harbor seal
- Reef Island · 2.0 km · harbor seal