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Fiji offers some of the best dive sites in the world and is often referred to as the "soft coral capital".

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Eight of the best diving spots in Fiji: Part 2

Jon M. Piepkorn, Clare Caroline Brown and Stuart Gow presented the first part of our two-part features about the eight best sites in Fiji last weekend. Fiji's islets, where I can pride myself on being one of the best sites in the whole wide wad.

The Pacific nations are riverbanks for sport fans; for adventure seekers it is their unparalleled tradition and legacy; but for scuba diver Fiji is a huge, unexplored submarine port swarming with unparalleled sea creatures yet to be discovered. At the north end of the Laguna there are a few diving sites that you can explore while you wait for the right current at one of my favorite sites all over Fiji:

On the outside of the canal the deep begins at about 18 meters, where one dives for diving. Typical you will be hit by white tip shark that sleep under the large fungus bomb at the entry to the canal. While drifting towards the Laguna, the canal becomes narrow and deep (with beautiful cliffs on both sides that scratch the surfaces of the water) and you will be covered with three types of school barracudas.

While drifting into the canal, you will come across Big Bill, the big mashed seabass that will be swimming with you throughout the entire dives. Approximately 15 to 20 min after the dives you reach The Bleachers - think of Stadionbestuhlung - since the corals and living cliffs offer an area, in which the diver can relax softly on their knee with a soft ground.

In The Bleachers you can see the training gray shark that are always present. It is the place where the feminine horrors give life to their young - so at the right season you will also be spoiled with small gray shark reefs.

Once you have spent your lower hours observing the charming whales in front of you as they slide into and out of the big-eyed swarms, it's safe to go for a drive down the "slide". There is one white tip or two floating fish, morays, nudis and lobster.

Since most of the diving sites are on the western side of the fringe riffs, Vatu Vai - Fijian for "Manta Rock" is one of the most sought after diving sites. It is a purification plant for the local manta rays, where you often see dark manta rays that patrol the outside wall of the cliff.

The Den is also a popular site on the outskirts of the Wakaya Canal. You can often see large hammerheads with barracudas, wakaya and barracudas on the Wakaya barriere as well. There' s a provincial office on the Isle of Fiji where they work to save and resettle tortoises and mussels all over Fiji.

There are many diving spots only a few min. away from the protected laguna. One of my favorite diving spots is Vatu Vasua (or "Clam Rock"), which is by far one of the best places for diving at all. Situated in the Koro Sea and reachable from Savusavu by diving safari, floatplane or speed boat, this is a fantastic diving area.

There is a small islet, encircled by an atoll/barrier coral cliff, there are several diving areas, but the two most favoured ones are the North Save-A-Tack and Southern Save-A-Tack passages. Fiji is known for its coral reefs in the Southern Part. Beneath the dispersed bogeys the colors of the Schwarzwald, the smokestacks and the "tetons" of the diving sites will inspire.

Dependent on the currents you can see here tree species and grouper, and with a keen eyes you can see freshwater frogfishes, scorpionfish, various nudibranches and whistling fish. Alternating tides and currents lead you to the Nordpassage, where you can begin at the over 800 meter high face and be pampered with hammerheads, silver tip oceans and greys.

You are greeted by big eyes and barracudas on the platform known as Grand Central Station. If you then move towards the bow, you have a great look at fratch crabs, Scorpio crabs and pipefishes, as well as all the colorful marine life Fiji has to show, and the smaller animals (shrimps, anemonefish, etc.).

Dependent on your own amount of space, or as a second round of diving, visit the large Kansas peninsula, which is located next to the smaller well. Embedded between the colorful coral and the coral on the top, the site is a favorite for every scuba divers I have brought there.

On Fiji's eastside, between the island of Namena and the continent, are some of Fiji's most popular diving spots: Since there are no accommodation or islets in the area, the wheather must be really co-operative for an excursion to this diving area, which can be accessed by speed boat or live-aboard from some of the north/east Viti Levu continental resort.

It is a very varied area with some great hardforal divers and softer corals. The Somosomo Strait offers some of Fiji's best dive sites with over 10,000 sq km of unspoilt seawater. Recreational life in the system varies in area, form and bottom.

We have several walldives - the Zoo, the Purple Walls and the Great White Walls - as well as a scatter of bogey and shallow top riffs in different corners in proportion to the constantly inflowing and outflowing tides (north-south and south-north).

Ascribed to these tides is the nutrient-rich seawater that flows into the system twice a daily from the northern and southern end of the Somosomo Strait. Fiji's cliffs offer some 467 types of shellfish, 298 types of rigid seaweed and around 1,200 types of marine life - not to mention Dendronephthya, a type of flexible seaweed that grows in this area in all the colors of the rainy arch.

The Great White Wall is one of the reasons why scuba diver come to Taveuni and Rainbow Reef year after year. It is often not stated that this is a tidal and electric ity-dependent diving. Diving at low and high tides is the best season to swim after the tides have been feeding the hard-coral.

After swimming through, turn off to the right where you can see the Great White Walled. The coral will be in full blossom, and will cover the walls from about 20m to over 60m. The dive during the flood makes sure that you meet the Great Brown Barrier as the coral shrinks and appears as small blankets.

Once you have checked the face, end your dives on the upper platform. You' ll be spoiled with boxes of reddish/violet coral, as well as Scorpio laffish, ribboned pipe fish, squid, a few white tip shark reefs and a few large speckled or potatoe jackfish that call this place home.

Annie's Bommees is another favourite area. Many years ago spotted by the Fiji diving master Annie, this is, many say, the main reasons why the name of the reef is born. The threeommies at a deep of about 20 meters to six or seven meters let the coral blossom in all colors of the downpour.

Around these booms there is a sugar-white sand soil on which live thousand of eel, but also bandeels, loggerhead sea turtles and many other lives. Situated at the north end of Somosomo Street, at high water, it will pamper you with large schoolings of large barracudas, horticultural whales, great-eyed whale rays, and training big-eyed boys.

Sometimes there are so many small sharks that it is difficult to see! Take advantage of your ground travel on the actual (northern) side, then take a fun run across the top of the cliff to the south side. Finish your diving by discovering shallow calcareous rock formations, the formation of marine life and marine life.

The Rainbow Red stretches several kilometers from the northern end of the Somosomo Strait and winds along the coast of Vanua Levu to the southward direction. There are probably two dozens more, with over two dozens of favourite sites, and these are probably the ones that know the site well and keep their treasures half-secreted. Great Fiji Short-count, which takes place every year in April and November, shows an increasing number of sharks. Somosomo Strait is no exeption.

When diving at Rainbow Red you can see white tip, black tip and gray shark as well as occasional leaf or zipard and large hammerheads. Bandeels are a favorite of many people. The little dwarf sea horses are also hard to see, but they can be found at various diving sites on Rainbow Red.

There are other favourite diving spots: Jerry's Jelly, Rainbow Passage, Nuku (Sand) Reef, Fish Factory, Yellow Tunnel, Jack's Place, The Corner and the Kabbage Patch - usually a beautiful light-to-no-current diving and home to one of the biggest and most unspoilt char reefs in the game. Get out and go diving!