Practice coastal navigation skills on the water in Monterey
Fish for salmon on an 8.5-hour boat trip from Monterey
Fish for rock cod on a mid-day Monterey outing
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.