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(Clockwise from top right) Phil's Fish Market was named "best seafood restaurant in the world" by BBC Travel and has been featured on the Food Network's "Throwdown with Bobby Flay" for the best cioppino. The business may soon be changing locations. Moss Landing is known for its non-pretentious yacht club and many antiques shops. The Haute Enchilada Café and Gallery is celebrating 15 years of offering sustainable seafood and local organic produce, wine and beer tasting, and two art galleries. thirst for marine knowledge. Instead of being hunted to near extinction for their luxurious fur pelts, the Southern Sea Otter is now revered and prized for its cuteness factor and playful antics. Several businesses offer the means to get up close and personal to these resourceful crit- ters, including Gideon's Elkhorn Slough Safari Nature Boat Tours and Kayak Connection. Whisper Charters' Brian Ackerman pilots a 22- foot, all-electric boat that enables nearly silent tours of the Elkhorn Slough, where dozens of bird species, seals, fish and otters abound. "This is a fantastic place to watch wildlife," the retired MBARI research ship captain says. "The lunch wagon rolls in twice a day with the tide, bringing in sardines, anchovies—all kinds of food for the local critters." Elkhorn Slough—specifically the Moonglow C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 1 4 137 134-138 Moss Landing 2_152-161 Garcia story 1/26/14 2:54 PM Page 4