Some people drift in just for the jazz festival.
The Outer Bay is actually a one million-gallon tank that recreates the open ocean 60 to 100 miles off the central coast of California. Riddled with rocks and teeming with fish, this coastline has been home to the sea otters since the day Monterey began. Once upon a time there was a real Cannery Row. Steinbeck's 1945 yarn was not a fiction, although nowadays it is virtually inconceivable to imagine how life was back then. What makes Monterey Bay special is the underwater gorge slicing into the earth's crust to a deepness greater than that of the Grand Canyon.