Chain Islets
Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion · 35 reports from 12 observers, August 2017 to November 2024
In the atlas
Site 14.03 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.
On scattered intertidal rocks and reef areas around Chain Islets.
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 · 34 reports
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California Sea Lion · 1 report
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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.
- Nov 10, 2024 · Harbor Seal · bstarzomski on iNaturalist · 318 m away · source
- Nov 10, 2024 · Harbor Seal · bstarzomski on iNaturalist · 318 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 124 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 83 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 114 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 201 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 219 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 237 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 337 m away · source
- Sep 28, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 199 m away · source
- Jun 30, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 377 m away · source
- Jun 30, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 339 m away · source
- Jun 30, 2024 · Harbor Seal · sala_mandur_luvr on iNaturalist · 355 m away · source
- Apr 14, 2024 · Harbor Seal · aiva on iNaturalist · 428 m away · source
- Oct 28, 2023 · Harbor Seal · lauren_bosch on iNaturalist · 318 m away · source
- Aug 27, 2023 · Harbor Seal · sddouglas on iNaturalist · 403 m away · location approximate (±1926 m) · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · earley_bird on iNaturalist · 353 m away · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · liamragan on iNaturalist · 414 m away · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · earley_bird on iNaturalist · 217 m away · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · liamragan on iNaturalist · 414 m away · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · earley_bird on iNaturalist · 282 m away · source
- Jul 9, 2023 · Harbor Seal · earley_bird on iNaturalist · 312 m away · source
- May 8, 2023 · Harbor Seal · thundershot on iNaturalist · 294 m away · location approximate (±1079 m) · source
- Oct 15, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 263 m away · source
- Oct 15, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 231 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 207 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 272 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 283 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 361 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 368 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 326 m away · source
- Aug 6, 2022 · Harbor Seal · enspring on iNaturalist · 386 m away · source
- Oct 27, 2021 · Harbor Seal · jessiaco on iNaturalist · 312 m away · source
- Jul 29, 2018 · Harbor Seal · rdjmacklin on iNaturalist · 368 m away · source
- Aug 20, 2017 · California Sea Lion · bird0_1 on iNaturalist · 372 m away · source
Of 35 reports, 27 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 6 state no accuracy, and 35 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Trial Island · 3.2 km · harbor seal, California sea lion, Steller sea lion
- Sombrio Point · 7.4 km · harbor seal, California sea lion