409 Dive Log Australasia December 24

The main office, guest lounge, dive shop, library and boutique

The general pattern of diving is three dives a day. The resort allocates one dive as a night dive during your week. However, you can basically do whatever you want. The dive staff here are extremely accommodating and will try to fulfill your every wish. I ended up dong three night dives. After the first night dive, Novie discovered that I rated night diving as my favorite of all. She suggested night diving the next evening as well. Naturally, I was delighted at the prospect of swapping an afternoon dive for a night dive. We were able to have the two morning dives followed by lunch, time to check my photos, a siesta and a night dive. That is about as good as it gets, in my book.

Each day we travelled from 10 minutes to thirty minutes to our dive sites. We explored Western reefs, Eastern reefs and Southern reefs and some further afield. The resort map of the reefs with all of the dive sites became a tantalizing drawcard to imagine the treasures therein. Naturally, the choice of dive sites is dictated by the prevailing weather. We did have a few windy days but there is always somewhere that is protected. We did have to wait a few days for the right conditions for the Fan Coral dive. But hey, that is diving and safety is always the best option. We dived at ‘Roma’ with its colony of Cabbage Corals, we dived ridge dives such as Waitii

I think that this is an immature male Flasher wrasse, Note absence of the high dorsal fin.

You can dine in the restaurant or under the shade in the garden with ocean views

25 DIVE LOG Australasia #409 - December ‘24