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anta Reef - Manta Reef is one of the world’s best places to regularly hang out in the blue water here and always come in to
check out divers. This is very much a pelagic dive on the edge of
M dive and see oceanic manta rays and resident manta rays.
Primarily a feeding area, some manta rays are visit cleaning sta- open ocean waters some 2,000 feet deep.

tions within a few feet of divers. Manta Reef is a 40 minute boat B ig Point/Small Corner - These are a couple of dive sites known
ride from the resort and it is claimed manta rays are spotted on for Humpback dolphin, tiger sharks, whale sharks and school-
approzimately 80% of all dives. Even without these magnificent

creatures, the reef itself is outstanding in its quality and diversity ing wahoo. They have all been seen here.

of fish life. It is also a site where the great hammerhead shark as T he Golden Chimney - A sand slope start leading to a pas-
well as pacific sailfish can be present. sageway drift dive along a steep rock wall face and ending in
a cave and chimney up through the reef. From the anchored dive
N aiqoro Passageway - One of the best and most varied dive boat, descend a sandy slope covered with garden eels to see the
sites in Fiji, Naiqoro Passageway is a large marine reserve with
over 5 dive sites ranging from coral gardens to fast drift dives. Just resting whitetip reef sharks. Follow the steep passageway rock wall

20 minutes from the Resort, dive sites include Spot X, Japanese towards the Golden Chimney – a hole through the reef covered in

Gardens and Shark Alley….Naiqoro Passageway offers visibility yellow soft corals. Large moray eels, gorgonian fans and plenty of

averaging 50 meters and sometimes in winter up to 100 meters. scorpion fish.

Clear oceanic water enters the pass and pristine hard corals and T he Far Side - Dive into this dramatic drop off and drift down
soft corals abound. Expect to see numerous schooling jacks, bar- the slope into the lower regions of the mouth of Korolevu Pas-
racuda, surgeon fish, grey reef sharks, passing manta rays and the

occasional pacific sailfish. sageway. Silvertip sharks, grey reef sharks, dogtooth tuna, schools

T he Belfry - The Belfry is not always accessible as it is on the of bigeye trevally and barracuda cruise past out of the depths
Outer Great Astrolabe Reef. Batfish swarm over this under- while the current drifts you into the mouth of the passage. Oc-
casional manta rays.

sea mound with silvertip sharks and other large pelagic species.

Named for its schooling Batfish and schools of barracuda also