Dive Review of
Kai Viti Divers & Dive Kadavu/Wananavu Resort & Matana Kadavu in
Fiji and Tuvalu/Viti Levu & Kadavu

Bahamas, All 3 of the Cayman Islands, BVI, Maui

Dive Conditions

Computer divers could pretty much dive own profiles at both places.  Asked
for 3 to 5 minute safety stop and return with at least 300 psi  

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Overall Rating

Would have changed the order and done Kadavu first and Wananvu last.  
Kadavu was very nice, but rustic, with power for only 6 or 7 hours per day
and filtered rain water (cloudy) for drinking unless you bought bottled
water.  Diving was mostly bommie with little current on most dives.  The 3
tank trip to Astrolabe Reef was awesome although our group didn't see the
mantas.  The other half of our group who went the day before swam with 5
mantas.  The reef is absolutely pristine with all kinds of hard and
flexible corals fighting for space.  Lots of tropicals and giant clams as
well.  I actually did a second 3 tank trip to this reef looking for mantas
(got skunked again) and didn't feel it was a waste because I just enjoyed
diving this incredible reef.    
Most of the diving was done on the Namalata reef, a 15 minute boat ride
from shore with surface intervals on a beach where tea and crackers were
served.  The bommies and mini walls in this area were covered with
incredibly colorful soft corals and loaded with small tropicals.  We saw
lion fish, blue ribbon eels, bright yellow trumpets, ghost pipe fish,
bumphead parrots, sweetlips,batfish, sea snakes, reindeer wrasse,
nudibranchs, etc.  They did a shark feed which drew a dozen or so good
sized reef sharks but actually, we saw sharks on most every dive. 
Comfortable boats and a layed back atmosphere coupled with some excellent
diving made this a great destination.

Wananavu was a step up in terms of the resort.  Although a two hour drive
from the Nadi airport after the flight from LA wasn't exactly welcome, the
resort was very comfortable, nicely done, and a great staff.  We dove with
Kai Viti and did the Bligh Waters most days(dove inside the passage on
bommies on the rough days). A bit more current and a lot more drift diving
than at Kadavu but again, pristine reefs, lots and lots of colorful soft
corals, huge anenomes with clownfish of all different varieties, pipefish,
ghost pipefish, lionfish, hawkfish, schools of barracuda, tuna, and
fusiliers and again, lots of shark sightings.  Nudibranchs of every
description and clouds of fish we couldn't name were everywhere.  We were
constantly going over the books at both resorts to name what we had seen.
Large, fast, comfortable boat,  experienced Fijiian divemasters, pristine
sites, and lots of fish combined to give us some great diving.

 

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