Target tarpon across Naples flats, creeks, rivers, passes, and beaches
Island lunch cruise with time to explore Cabbage Key or Useppa Island
Cruise Gasparilla Sound with bring-your-own beer or wine
Clarity is geology, not luck: quartz sand, seagrass filtration, and how close the Gulf Stream runs. Thirteen beaches, and the trade-off each one asks of you.
Florida issues no boating license at all. What the marina checks is a safety education card, and whether you need one comes down to one date: January 1, 1988.