Local Dive Sites
World Famous Somo Somo Straits
The Rainbow Reef in the Somo Somo Straits represents spectacular, world class tropical diving. This reef structure stretches over 10 miles of coast line between Taveuni and Vanua Levu. With diving being most easily accessible from Taveuni Island.
The unique combination of location and reef configuration creates an optimum tidal current. With a stable warm water temperature year round, this special area has created the perfect conditions for a vast variety of hard and exuberant soft corals in a profusion of multi-colors, textures and types.
The reefs are teeming with marine life from nudibranchs, anenomies, 'Magical Fijian' corals, and pelagics to reef fish, turtles and some rarer finds like Blue Ribbon Eels. Yes this is shark territory too.
A varied reef topography lends a different experience to each dive site. Bommies, walls, tunnels, drop offs, and big fields of reef are just a few of the types of undersea formations in the straits. This ideal spawning field has created first rate dive sites such as The Great White Wall, Annies Bommie, Yellow Grotto, The Ledge, Blue Ribbon Eel Reef, Ogo, Fish Factory. Average diving depth varies from 45-125 ft/15-40 m.
Summer: Nov - Mar |
Winter: Jun - Sept |
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Water temp: |
77-82° F / 23-24° C |
69-72° F / 18-20° C |
Visibility: |
50 ft / 16 m+ |
100 ft / 30 m+ |
Good time for: |
Worm mating. |
Aggregation of breeding Giant Marbled Cod. Coral spawning. |
See National Geographic Magazine, Fiji's Rainbow Reefs: Nov 2004. Their website provides outstanding underwater multi-media footage, and descriptions about our immediate area:
» Fiji's Rainbow Reefs
