Instant Reader Report
on Fiji Scuba / Matagi Island Resort in
Fiji / Matagi Island on
2002/03
by
James McMeins , WA, USA
Report Number 020820134316291

 [Unspecified] 

Dive Conditions

3 minute safety stops at end of each dive.  

No camera table on boat and had to request camera bucket put on boat.  

Overall Rating

3rd stay at Matagi and it is excellant. For the price and its remoteness
this is a 1st class oepration and we will continue to go back there. The
food was always excellant and the staff is very attentive to your needs.
They offered to upgrade us to one of the delux bures but we declined.
Although #1 used to be the oldest it was recently refinished and we
enjoyed the extra room this bure provides. The dive operation is still run
by Carol & Nigle Douglas and the jet boat is an excellant dive
platform. Fish life is still abudant in this area as well as big fish. We
got in the water with a large school of pilot whales and dolpins on one
dive, it was great! Went and explored several new sites this trip as well
as the usual ones. Warming waters and algea are also having a negative
effect here as most of reef tops are brown or covered with algea. Did the
day trip to Somasoma Straight, hit the Great White wall at full tide, what
a ride! Shore diving is improving each year, more and more of the reef off
the resort is coming back to life and lots of fish here. Night dives are
excellant. Dive operation had new instructor/diveguide who was really
unfamiliar with a lot of the divesites, we had to tell him what some of
the dives were we wanted to do and get the native crew to show him where
they were. 1st 3 days we were there, the wind was up and was really rough,
several divers got seasick, the rest of the time we were there it was
mostly calm. The trip to the local village is a real eye opener and if you
plan on going to Matagi, take some boxes of pencils/crayons & tablets
with you. It is really appreciated by the children in the school as well
as sporting equipment, i.e. soccer balls, basketballs etc. 

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