Race Rocks
Steller Sea Lion, California Sea Lion, Northern Elephant Seal, Harbor Seal, Eared seal, Northern Fur Seal, Steller sea lion, Elephant seal · 456 reports from 148 observers, April 2002 to September 2026
In the atlas
Site 14.02 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: harbor seal, California sea lion, Steller sea lion · 100 to 500 animals · used mainly at low tide.
Intertidal rocks and reef areas around Race Rocks.
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 · 186 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | ||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 3 | ||||||
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | |||||
| 2021 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| 2020 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2018 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 2017 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 1 | 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.
California Sea Lion · 122 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | |||||||
| 2024 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| 2020 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2018 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
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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.
Northern Elephant Seal · 94 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2023 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
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| 2016 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 1 | 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.
Harbor Seal · 46 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
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| 2026 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 2025 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
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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.
Eared seal · 5 reports
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| 2020 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Northern Fur Seal · 1 report
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| 2024 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller sea lion · 1 report
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| 2024 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Elephant 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 29, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · annikorca on iNaturalist · 251 m away · source
- Sep 29, 2026 · California Sea Lion · annikorca on iNaturalist · 238 m away · source
- Sep 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · tobyye on iNaturalist · 490 m away · source
- Sep 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · griffinduckworth on iNaturalist · 242 m away · source
- Sep 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · griffinduckworth on iNaturalist · 224 m away · source
- Sep 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · jacobstasso on iNaturalist · 354 m away · source
- Sep 27, 2026 · Harbor Seal · jacobstasso on iNaturalist · 341 m away · source
- Sep 22, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · izatchu on iNaturalist · 470 m away · source
- Sep 10, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · randrudland on iNaturalist · 313 m away · location approximate (±774 m) · source
- Sep 10, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · randrudland on iNaturalist · 313 m away · location approximate (±774 m) · source
- Sep 8, 2026 · California Sea Lion · greenmanonpark on iNaturalist · 307 m away · source
- Sep 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · haileyflo on iNaturalist · 389 m away · source
- Sep 4, 2026 · California Sea Lion · warrenlayberry on iNaturalist · 409 m away · source
- Sep 4, 2026 · California Sea Lion · warrenlayberry on iNaturalist · 421 m away · source
- Sep 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · warrenlayberry on iNaturalist · 469 m away · source
- Sep 4, 2026 · Harbor Seal · warrenlayberry on iNaturalist · 463 m away · source
- Sep 4, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · warrenlayberry on iNaturalist · 434 m away · source
- Sep 2, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · capybara1357 on iNaturalist · 397 m away · source
- Sep 2, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · capybara1357 on iNaturalist · 361 m away · source
- Aug 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · tyler_nelz on iNaturalist · 358 m away · source
- Aug 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · eamonrs on iNaturalist · 459 m away · location approximate (±618 m) · source
- Aug 22, 2026 · California Sea Lion · bmurtha on iNaturalist · 310 m away · source
- Aug 22, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · bmurtha on iNaturalist · 293 m away · source
- Aug 19, 2026 · Harbor Seal · nataliegoldman on iNaturalist · 175 m away · source
- Aug 19, 2026 · California Sea Lion · alangray222 on iNaturalist · 86 m away · location approximate (±890 m) · source
- Aug 19, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · alangray222 on iNaturalist · 268 m away · location approximate (±1345 m) · source
- Aug 16, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · jacky1987 on iNaturalist · 356 m away · source
- Aug 16, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · jacky1987 on iNaturalist · 356 m away · source
- Aug 14, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · kestrel on iNaturalist · 347 m away · source
- Aug 14, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · kestrel on iNaturalist · 452 m away · source
- Aug 7, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · marieclaudec on iNaturalist · 332 m away · source
- Jun 12, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · fungusfan on iNaturalist · 458 m away · source
- Jun 2, 2026 · Harbor Seal · charnts on iNaturalist · 410 m away · source
- May 26, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · akelanderr on iNaturalist · 335 m away · source
- May 12, 2026 · Northern Elephant Seal · liamragan on iNaturalist · 326 m away · source
- May 7, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · evan_joyes on iNaturalist · 474 m away · location approximate (±639 m) · source
- May 7, 2026 · Northern Elephant Seal · evan_joyes on iNaturalist · 412 m away · location approximate (±631 m) · source
- Apr 25, 2026 · Northern Elephant Seal · eaglewingtours on iNaturalist · 374 m away · source
- Apr 25, 2026 · California Sea Lion · eaglewingtours on iNaturalist · 428 m away · source
- Feb 18, 2026 · California Sea Lion · jmclatchie on iNaturalist · 347 m away · source
and 416 earlier reports.
Of 456 reports, 328 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 66 state no accuracy, and 368 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- NW of Church Point · 4.9 km · harbor seal
- Becher Bay · 6.9 km · harbor seal