Dive Review of
Tawali Resort in
Papua New Guinea/Milne Bay

Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand

Dive Conditions

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Overall Rating

Tawali Resort is set in a truly beautiful location in the jungle about an
hours drive and 15 minute boat trip from Alotau airport. Run by a
combination of Americans and Australians, you are made to feel part of a
community as soon as you enter the doors. It has about 15 rooms, large and
basic (no TVs) but tastefully designed, each with a balcony looking out
through the jungle over the water. Meals are buffet style with the
occasional bbq, generally involving fresh fish.

Diving facilities are well organised. There is a dive centre with several
boats, including 1 large boat which carries about 25 divers and mainly goes
to the outer reef about 2 hours away. This boat is well equipped and is
positively luxurious compared to some dive boats I've been on, with room
for people to accommodate themselves in comfortable deck chairs and read on
the trip in and out to the reef. Lunch, snacks, hot and cold drinks are
served all day.

On the first day, we mainly dived an outer reef site called Little China
which had very strong currents and lots of fish I would recommend this only
for experienced and fit divers. The second day, we went to Lauanda and
Deacons (inner) reefs. Lauanda was a fantastic muck dive: lots of octopus,
goatfish, pipefish, eels, nudibrancs and an irrascible brown-marbled
grouper who kept attacking divers.  And the house reef at the resort is
almost as good as the diving! 

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