E. Straight offshore outta Salinas. In the winter, Moss Landing is a very serious surf spot -- big, powerful and challenging. The surf mellows the closer you go to the jetty to the south ...

Between Manresa and Moss Landing, you'll find mile after empty ... and it can be a wide-open forest of perfect surf.

What makes this small fishing village particularly unique ... to walk and play along the two miles of open sand at Moss Landing State Beach; it's rarely crowded and gives you beautiful views ...