catherine
Joined: 10 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: WORLDCLASS DIVING FIJI Taveuni Island |
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Taveuni Island, and the SOMOSOMO strait in particular offers some of the best drift dives in the world. Drift diving means that as a result of current you end up a distance from where you started from, as the current sweeps you along. There are some fabulous dives here but because conditions are not always favourible for certain dices you have to allow a stay of about 10 days, to experience them all
The area is famous for soft coral,which is multi coloured, as well as the fact that the conditions are perfect for reef fish means that youencounter a wider range of fish than in vitullay any place outside of the red sea.
The great white wall is one of their most populat dives and the coral is tinged with lavendar and pink, and is an enormous wall of coral
Other than diving there is not much to do on Taveuni and the beach facilities are limited. However on Prince charles Beach so named because Charles and Dianna stopped off there on their honeymonn, it is the place where at low tide that I have seen the most seahorses. Yje beach itself is only about 200 yards in length, but at low tide there were thousands of sea horses left in the rock pools. If you experience Taveuni do not forget the night dives, they are something else |
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