Alison in Fiji
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Scuba Diving Namena Reserve this week in crystal clear 27 degree waters, strong trade winds and amid sightings of a great white shark!
Report from Namena Reserve by Alison Smith - https://www.waterlustfiji.com/
The South Easterly trade wind season has been very pronounced this year with much of the season in Fiji characterised by winds of over 20 knots as a series of low pressure systems have headed east south of the Fiji Islands. The lulls between the winds have meant time at the incredible Namena Reserve - which no doubt is probably Fiji's best diving. This large horse shoe shape reef in the Koro Sea boasts the 'North Save a Tack' passage with schools of hammerheads, large tuna, huge barracuda and trevally school and more soft coral bommies that you can shake a macro stick at. 'Chimneys' at the faux 'South Save a tack' passage on the other side of the reef is also incredible with a series of tall thin pinnacles decorated in soft corals that buzz with lyre tail anthias and larger reef fish. Giant hammerheads can be seen in the deep. Macro can't be forgotten here too. My first ever Fiji frog fish put in an appearance!
Rumours of a great white shark are circling in the nearby town of Savusavu after a group of Fijian spear fishermen were circled in the day by a large shark (which was then identified from pictures) which declined to take the walu (Spanish mackerel) from their spear gun and instead continued to harass them until they hastily scrambled into a rescuing long boat. The tale is that the shark had a pre caudal pit with a girth of a wooden telegraph pole.
The week coming up (other than drinks and dancing for Fiji Independence day on the 10th of October) means Palolo worm rising ( a polychaete worm which releases its gonads into the water column during October and November) and possibly the beginning of the coral spawn after the full moon.
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Report from Namena Reserve by Alison Smith - https://www.waterlustfiji.com/
The South Easterly trade wind season has been very pronounced this year with much of the season in Fiji characterised by winds of over 20 knots as a series of low pressure systems have headed east south of the Fiji Islands. The lulls between the winds have meant time at the incredible Namena Reserve - which no doubt is probably Fiji's best diving. This large horse shoe shape reef in the Koro Sea boasts the 'North Save a Tack' passage with schools of hammerheads, large tuna, huge barracuda and trevally school and more soft coral bommies that you can shake a macro stick at. 'Chimneys' at the faux 'South Save a tack' passage on the other side of the reef is also incredible with a series of tall thin pinnacles decorated in soft corals that buzz with lyre tail anthias and larger reef fish. Giant hammerheads can be seen in the deep. Macro can't be forgotten here too. My first ever Fiji frog fish put in an appearance!
Rumours of a great white shark are circling in the nearby town of Savusavu after a group of Fijian spear fishermen were circled in the day by a large shark (which was then identified from pictures) which declined to take the walu (Spanish mackerel) from their spear gun and instead continued to harass them until they hastily scrambled into a rescuing long boat. The tale is that the shark had a pre caudal pit with a girth of a wooden telegraph pole.
The week coming up (other than drinks and dancing for Fiji Independence day on the 10th of October) means Palolo worm rising ( a polychaete worm which releases its gonads into the water column during October and November) and possibly the beginning of the coral spawn after the full moon.
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