WAIDROKA BAY DIVE & SURF RESORT

A piece of paradise that features one of the best dive locations in the Pacific! Waidroka is also known for great surfing as well.

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Dive and Surf In Fiji | Waidroka Bay Resort

Departing on March 15, 2012

Week 1

Waidroka Bay Resort, Fiji, arriving Saturday, March 17, 2012 and departing Saturday, March 24, 2012 for 7 nts.

Your air departure is scheduled from LAX on Thursday, March 15, 2012 with return Saturday, March 24, 2012.

Paradise Dive Center has secured space for each of you based on double occupancy.

Waidroka Bay Resort is a piece of paradise conveniently located on Fiji’s largest island of Viti Levu.  This resort is uniquely nestled in the rainforest at the ocean’s edge on Fiji’s famous Coral Coast offering a tranquil retreat for complete relaxation and exploration both above and below the water.  Oceanfront Bungalows and our Panoramic Ocean-view Rooms offer pure comfort with great views and individual terraces to enjoy your earl morning or evenings in complete privacy.  You will experience friendly Fijian hospitality at its best.

Diving:  Diving on Beqa Lagoon, one of the best dive locations in the Pacific.  Great surfing on ‘Frigates’ and ‘Pipe,’ and a fleet of 5 professionally equipped surf and dive boats.

Price:

**$2399.00 per person based on double occupancy

Includes:

Includes RT airfare from Los Angeles, 7 nights’ accommodations in a panoramic room, hotel taxes, 3 meals per day, 5 days of diving: 3X3 tank dives plus 2X2 tank dives including the famous Beqa Lagoon Shark dive!

Call for more information about this awesome adventure!!!

One week not enough?? Add on another week at MATAVA RESORT

Our Second week add-on at Matava Adventure!!!!

Week 2

Add on Matava Resort, Fiji, arriving Saturday, March 24, 2012, and departing Saturday, March 31, 2012 for 7 nts.

Your air departure is scheduled from LAX on Thursday, March 15, 2012 with return on Saturday, March 31, 2012. Air is from LAX

A private haven walking distance to spectacular diving on the Astrolabe Reef.

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Matava | Fiji’s Eco Friendly Resort

Drift to sleep to the soothing roar of the waves breaking on the distant reef and be awakened to the call of exotic native wildlife. Matava caters to a maximum of only 22 guests in lush tropical surrounding ensuring a private haven away form the hustle and bustle of crowds. Traditional thatched Fijian ‘bures’ with polished timber floors, louver windows, timber four poster beds and private decks are nestled in the rainforest to offer privacy, comfort and superb ocean views.

Our Oceanview Bures are across the stream and offer spectacular panoramas ofThe Great Astrolabe Reef and surrounding offshore islands. Our top-end Honeymoon Bures are scattered back up on the hill behind Matava to ensure complete privacy and stunning vista from the expansive full length picture windows across the ocean. Immersed in beautiful tropical gardens and surrounded by lush rainforest the Honeymoon Bures are a true heaven of privacy within the beauty of Fiji’s natural environment. All these new design bures have new private facilities and expansive private decks.

Solar power provides the lighting in all the bures for night time reading and comfort.

Our environmental policy does not allow us to spray harsh chemicals for pest control, we prefer the natural repellant of the carefully selected shrubs that discourage insects and bugs. All bures are fully insect screened on all windows, and the romance of the tropics is enlivened with custom made mosquito nets on all of our beds.

Add on Includes:

Round trip airfares from Nandi to Kadavu, 7 nights accommodations,

15 dives, 3 meals per day for entire stay, unlimited Shore diving, All taxes

Rates:

Waidroka week one only - USD $2399** cash discount rate

per person double occupancy / panoramic room

Waidroka/Matava combo package - $4049**cash discount Rate

per person double occupancy/oceanview

**Current international airfare, taxes, federal excise tax, passenger facility charges, surcharges or any other fees indicated are not guaranteed and are subject to change.

Full price of trip before discounts is:

** Waidroka week one only: $2471.00 per person double

**Waidroka/Matava combo package: $4170.00 per person double

The fine print

Astrolabe Reef – World’s Best Soft Coral Scuba Diving

by Lisa

Fiji’s Great Astrolabe Reef is one of the world’s largest ribbon barrier reefs and is the world’s best scuba diving site to see soft coral. Imagine diving in 80-degree crystal-blue waters. From where you hover, you have great visibility. You can see 82 feet, straight down to the coral bommies on the ocean floor. Multitudes of Butterfly fish and Angelfish dart around you along with many other species of fish and sea creatures to numerous to count. Suddenly, a manta ray courses by so close you can almost touch it and you are filled with delight! This is the magic of diving the reef.

Manta Ray Dive on Astrolabe Reef

Astrolabe Reef is actually two barrier reefs that wind around several islands, creating a protective atoll lagoon-like structure. The hard coral reef protects a diverse ecosystem rich with fish and invertebrates and provides a welcoming environment for all levels of scuba divers, from beginners to advance divers.

The reef is equally accessible for snorkeling and offers both shore diving and boat diving depending on where you are. Matava Resort, on Kadavu, offers shore diving. Kadavu is the biggest island in the area, with a fringing reef surrounding it. It extends along the entire southern side of Kadavu for over 74 miles. The island has no roads and the handful of resorts that can be found there are conscientious of the habitat.

Most diving is inside the barrier reef, where the water is gentle and predominantly shallow. Manta Rays return regularly to the lagoon from the open seas to visit “cleaning stations” to let cleaner wrasse (a marine fish) remove small parasites from their skin and gill cavities. Divers can also observe juvenile fish, sea turtles, acropora gardens, spinner dolphins, sea cucumbers, sponges and colorful Christmas-tree worms along with a plethora of other marine life.

Soft corals don’t build reefs like hard corals do; they don’t secrete calcium carbonate to create the reef structure. The primary habitat for soft coral is in reef passages or channels, which lead to and from extremely deep water and where the nutrient-rich current is moderate to heavy. Big fish, like marlin, dolphin fish, and sharks, swim the channels to take advantage of the protective shallows for breeding. Naiqoro Passage is one of the favorite channels for seeing large fish.

The ocean-side of the reef drops steeply into deep and wavy waters. This is where you can do a wall dive or drift dive along the current to even deeper waters to see the big fish like Hammerhead sharks, Humpback whales, Wahoo, and migrating yellow fin tuna.

There is much more for you to discover for yourself when you explore the reef. A rainbow of stunning living beauty awaits those who swim, snorkel and dive Fiji. The Great Astrolabe Reef and its abundant soft coral and marine life will produce memories of wonder and awe to last a lifetime.