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Official visitor guide and company offering Los Angeles boat rentals, jet skis, waverunners, water toys, and outdoor adventure boat tours and water sport recreational activities for families, businesses, and individuals in California's freshwater lakes, rivers, and reservoirs that allow motorized watercraft.  Los Angeles is often known by its initials L.A., it is the most populous city in the state of California and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City.  Los Angeles is both flat and hilly and has many parks and recreation areas to enjoy; camping, biking, hiking, fishing, surfing, skate boarding, jogging, flyboard water jet packs, and more.

The highest point in the city is 5,074 feet Mount Lukens, located at the northeastern end of the San Fernando Valley where tourist from around the world come to enjoy rock climbing, mountain biking, and Los Angels jet ski rentals at lakes close by.  The eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean and separates the Los Angeles Basin from the San Fernando Valley.  Other hilly parts of Los Angeles include the Mount Washington area north of Downtown, eastern parts such as Boyle Heights, the Crenshaw district around the Baldwin Hills, and the San Pedro district.  In the coldest month, January, the temperature typically ranges from 59 to 73 °F during the day and 45 to 55 °F at night.  In the warmest month – August – the temperature typically ranges from 79 to 90 °F during the day and around 64 °F at night.

Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World", due to the fact that one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry.  According to the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, "there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any time in the history of civilization."  Los Angeles is home to Hollywood, globally recognized as the epicenter of the motion picture industry.  A testament to its preeminence in film, the city plays host to the annual Academy Awards, the oldest and one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world. Finally, Los Angeles is home to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the oldest film school in the United States.

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Official information on Newport Beach boat rentals, jet skis, water toys, waverunners, and outdoor adventure water sport boat tours at all freshwater water ways in California.  The city was incorporated in 1906, is an affluent city in Orange County, California, 10 miles south of downtown Santa Ana, CA.  The city is bordered on the west by Huntington Beach at the Santa Ana River; on the north by Costa Mesa, John Wayne Airport, the City of Irvine and UC Irvine; and on the east by Crystal Cove State Park.  Several artificial islands were built, which are now covered with private homes; Newport Island, Balboa Island, Little Balboa Island, Collins Island, Bay Island, Harbor Island, Lido Isle and Linda Isle.  Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries such as boat-building, shipbuilding, and commercial fishing, but today it is used mostly for watercraft recreation.  Its shores are occupied mostly by private homes and private docks.

The Newport Harbor has approximately 9,000 boats which is one of the largest recreational boat harbors on the west coast.  It's a popular destination for all boating activities, including sailing, fishing, surfing, whale watching, rowing, canoeing, kayaking, and paddleboarding.  Commercial maritime operations today include the Catalina Flyer ferry to Catalina Island, harbor tours, sport fishing and whale watching day trips and charters, and a few small commercial fishing boats.  North of the bridge is referred to as Upper Newport Bay, or the Back Bay.  South of the bridge is commonly called Lower Newport Bay, or Newport Harbor.  However the Back Bay also has harbor facilities, especially the marina and launch ramp at The Dunes.  Boating activities are organized by five private yacht clubs, along with Orange Coast College, UC Irvine, and the Sea Scouts, all of which have sailing, rowing, and water activity bases on the harbor.  The Newport Aquatic Center allows open public participation in competitive rowing, canoeing, kayaking, and outrigger canoe racing.

Upper Newport Bay is ringed by Back Bay Drive and a network of trails and paths that attract bicyclists, rollerbladers, joggers, segway bikes, and walkers.  Bird watchers and nature lovers are drawn to the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve and Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center; and to Crystal Cove State Park, which features tide pools at the beach, and back-country hiking and mountain biking trails.  Attractions include the city beaches from the Santa Ana River to the tip of the Balboa Peninsula, Corona del Mar State Beach, and the beaches at Crystal Cove State Park.  Newport Beach is renowned for good surfing and swimming especially between Newport Pier and the Santa Ana River where you can also enjoy bodyboarding and bodysurfing.  Camping is available at Crystal Cove State Park, and at the Newport Dunes RV Park Resort and Marina.