Question Fiji: Your top dives (besides the Rainbow Reef dives)

[cetacean]

I don't think Rainbow Reef has the best diving in Fiji. It's very nice but the most impressive pinnacles are at Namena Reserve - which you dive from Savusavu and in Bligh Water - dived from Volivoli Beach Resort.

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Namena offers the best diving in Fiji... however the easiest way to dive it is from the Namena Island Resort (which is being rebuilt after a severe storm several years ago).

~10 min to even the farthest away sites is unbeatable - just waiting for the (new) resort to open.

 

[TostitoBandito]

Are they rebuilding/reopening Wananavu resort in Volivoli? I dove there many years ago and had some great day trips up into the Bligh pinnacle sites there, though they were long boat rides.

Namena is at the far northeast side of the Bligh waters, and I think many of the sites we were diving were about halfway between them, so long rides from either location.

 

[cetacean]

Wannavu is being rebuit, although there is no opening date.

The Bligh water has good diving, but not as good as the sites around Namena. There is a dive resort being rebuilt on Namena Island, providing very close access to all the world famous dive site around Namea. We stayed there a number of years ago, looking forward to returning when the resort reopens (and have been back on a liveaboard).

The only diving available in Fiji of a similar quality is down in the Lau group, which is both relatively hard to get to and quite expensive ($5k+/night USD).s