Sas
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I have a few questions about shore diving in Fiji. I am organising a holiday there in September and one of the resorts I would like to stay at has excellent snorkelling off the beach. About 6m of water with heaps of marine life, so I was hoping do some long shore dives to take photos. The dive shop at the resort has said that shore diving is not allowed as it is a marine protected area and that I would have to book a dive package (quite expensive) and only do boat diving. Some of the boat diving sites appear to be sites I could reach off the shore on my own...
Anyway, is this actually the case that diving is not allowed in marine protected areas? If not, why is snorkelling allowed? It didn't make much sense to me... The boat dives are much too expensive for me to consider booking a boat diving package with them.
I am also interested (seeing as this resort doesn't look like a possibility due to its lack of shore diving) in other resorts that would have good shore diving. One I saw, Beqa Lagoon Resort, had unlimited shore diving and the overall package seemed good and well-priced. Any one been to Beqa recently? If so what was the resort and also the shore diving like? The package includes 9 boat dives and I was wondering what kinds of sites they will go to as a few of the people I am travelling with would prefer sites under 30m.
Thanks in advance for any advice
Anyway, is this actually the case that diving is not allowed in marine protected areas? If not, why is snorkelling allowed? It didn't make much sense to me... The boat dives are much too expensive for me to consider booking a boat diving package with them.
I am also interested (seeing as this resort doesn't look like a possibility due to its lack of shore diving) in other resorts that would have good shore diving. One I saw, Beqa Lagoon Resort, had unlimited shore diving and the overall package seemed good and well-priced. Any one been to Beqa recently? If so what was the resort and also the shore diving like? The package includes 9 boat dives and I was wondering what kinds of sites they will go to as a few of the people I am travelling with would prefer sites under 30m.
Thanks in advance for any advice