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Fiji Dive, Where’s There is Always More to Explore
If your tastes run a bit more to the deep, dark and mysterious we have underwater cave dives that will beckon you mysteriously and shipwrecks that will stir the sense of adventure and imagination in your soul. And all of this immersed in Fiji’s ocean's that are clear, clean and warm to boot. To equate with the second line in Elizabeth Browning’s classic poem, “How many ways do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” We ask “How many hues of blue in an ocean can there be? Let me count the colors.” Maybe pushing poetic license a bit too far, but I quite like it.
When rippling serenely over our shallow, pristine, fine, white sand the ocean turns the lightest shade of aqua, so light in fact that you can only see any color at the base of one of the ripples. The water is so clear that it hardly appears to be there at all. And when moving steadily back and forth a bit farther from the beach, a current, in tune with the waves, creates an undertow that will gently suck at your feet as it laughingly plays with you with the hue turning a murkier shade of blue as it throws sand into the mix.
Take as Much Back with You as You Like… Picture Only Please
But then to the gloriousness of water swaying and sweeping across shallow coral gardens, drop-offs and bommies; the aquamarine brilliance so crisp and fresh with that part of the ocean exposed as if through a looking glass. An underwater photographer’s dream. The startling clarity reveals the underwater world of these coral creatures. Pipefish, squid, sea stars, a myriad of colorful soft corals, butterfly fish, batfish and triggerfish reside here with the blue starfish, seemingly lifeless, adding yet another dimension of blue.
Deeper yet with schools of barracuda, rainbow runners, walu, reef sharks and silvertip regular fly-bys. Turtles amble by decorously while giant schools of colorful parrotfish display their skills at synchronized swimming (they’re a sure thing at the next Olympics).
Then on to the ‘deepest blue’ where the ocean floor is seemingly bottomless and unfathomable, holding unto itself mysteries and stories centuries old with the biodiversity changing dramatically to that of which we know little.
Fiji’s Deep Rub, You Will Enjoy It
Diving in Fiji is diverse and that goes hand in hand with care and practicality. We have Fiji Scuba dives for everyone – from the learner to the novice to the expert. There are deep Fiji dives and shallow Fiji dives, reef dives Fiji and dramatic drop-offs, currents made for drift-diving, night diving and wreck and cave dives. The ocean is a foreign environment for us Homo Sapiens and as such should be treated with care and respect. Prepare effectively, respect the environment, dive within your limitations, don’t dive alone and enjoy the veritable feast that we have in store for you.
Fijians love a feast and are renowned for their preference for feasts of the rather grandiose and humongous size. Our diving feast is a Fijian feast so now you know what to expect!
An Ode to Diving
When I smell the salt and feel ocean breezes
The world goes away and all problems cease.
I dive to renew my soul, to gladly give up all worldly control
Down there I'm just a very small part of a very large whole.
It is in the sea where I am truly free,
To forget all those things that I often see,
The sea gives me strength, allows time for reflection, to heal,
No wonder I keep looking for that next dive deal,
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