Monastery Beach - Carmel Beach

Carmel
CA

One of the most popular beach sites in the Monterey area is Monastery Beach. This dive site is a short walk from parking along Highway 1 and the beach offers two very different sites. On the south side of the beach is a relatively calm patch reef that offers a very relaxing dive with lots of colo... more on Saintbrendan.com

5.0: A great place to dive.

This is a famous dive site in the Montery-Carmel area. An arm of the submarine canyon comes within a few hundred yards of the shore, so divers can drop down hundreds of feet very quickly on the north end of the beach. The south end of Monestary is a very nice rocky kelp reef populated with many f... coreypenrose, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor
4.0: Monastery Beach or Mortuary Beach

This beach has great views and you can build bon-fires on the sand. But beware that there is a very steep slope off into the ocean for those who want to wade in the surf. The beach is also known to the locals as Mortuary Beach as every year a diver dies while doing SCUBA -- some drown -- some hav... A TripAdvisor Member, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

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