Diving Taveuni and Tonga August 2012 video and short trip report

[surgeonfish1]

Thanks to all forum members, who helped us organizing our trip to Fiji and Tonga. You may watch our video here:
http://youtu.be/ne0oSoQIbQI
We had very good dives with Taveuni Ocean Sports on the Rainbow reef. Great company, excellent briefing, small groups. The bligh waters were disappointing for us, we did only 1 day instead of planned 3days. Bad visibility, high surge, croweded boats and divespots, no big fishes, no safety briefing with the Ra Divers. Maybe we had bad luck.
Our experiences with air pacific: Horrible, they cancelled a flight, so we had to leave Taveuni 2 days earlier to catch our international flight with them to Tonga, no compensation. Instead we had to pay for every oz of overweight.
Snorkelling with the whales and Fins n' flukes in Tonga was a lifetime experience. Sabine and Brian have competent knowledge of their Humpbacks.

 

[dflaher]

Great video, S'fish. Sorry about your troubles with Air Pacific...they really need some competition!
The video really brought back some great memories. Where did you stay on Taveuni?

 

[Shasta_man]

It seems like it's very difficult to get to Bligh Waters from a shore resort.

I laughed at the seasnake at the end of the Fiji portion of the video. It was a clear demonstration of hitting current coming over the reef.

 

[surgeonfish1]

Great video, S'fish. Sorry about your troubles with Air Pacific...they really need some competition!
The video really brought back some great memories. Where did you stay on Taveuni?

We stayed at Nakia Resort, they did a great job. If you go to Taveuni, visit Tavoro Falls and Lavena coast trail, it's worth the trip.