Boiling Reef
Steller Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion · 17 reports from 13 observers, August 2017 to April 2026
In the atlas
Site 14.01 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 rocks and reef areas around Boiling Reef.
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 · 10 reports
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| 2019 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Harbor Seal · 5 reports
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| 2017 | 2 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
California Sea Lion · 2 reports
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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 23, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · sophiajohnsonn on iNaturalist · 240 m away · source
- Apr 23, 2026 · Harbor Seal · sophiajohnsonn on iNaturalist · 354 m away · source
- Aug 26, 2025 · Harbor Seal · ldbert on iNaturalist · 328 m away · source
- Dec 3, 2024 · Harbor Seal · louisefdk on iNaturalist · 441 m away · source
- Sep 21, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · camerondeckert on iNaturalist · 454 m away · source
- Jun 12, 2024 · Steller Sea Lion · mtncatt on iNaturalist · 314 m away · source
- May 19, 2024 · California Sea Lion · louisefdk on iNaturalist · 450 m away · source
- Dec 22, 2023 · Steller Sea Lion · liamragan on iNaturalist · 287 m away · source
- Apr 24, 2023 · Steller Sea Lion · calebcatto on iNaturalist · 266 m away · source
- Apr 12, 2023 · Steller Sea Lion · mmarchan on iNaturalist · 331 m away · source
- Apr 3, 2023 · Steller Sea Lion · louisefdk on iNaturalist · 322 m away · location approximate (±549 m) · source
- Apr 13, 2022 · Steller Sea Lion · skirkvold on iNaturalist · 309 m away · source
- May 22, 2021 · Steller Sea Lion · chlorophilia on iNaturalist · 282 m away · source
- May 24, 2019 · Steller Sea Lion · bstarzomski on iNaturalist · 284 m away · source
- Feb 22, 2019 · California Sea Lion · jadynpatton on iNaturalist · 367 m away · location approximate (±1126 m) · source
- Aug 16, 2017 · Harbor Seal · anthonywood on iNaturalist · 107 m away · source
- Aug 14, 2017 · Harbor Seal · anthonywood on iNaturalist · 440 m away · source
Of 17 reports, 14 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 1 state no accuracy, and 16 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Tumbo Island Area · 4.2 km · harbor seal
- Patos Island · 5.1 km · harbor seal
- Tumbo Island Area · 5.7 km · harbor seal
- Java Islets · 5.8 km · harbor seal
- Skipjack Island · 6.2 km · harbor seal
- Skipjack Island · 6.2 km · harbor seal