The diving at Uepi is spectacular – it’s a great place to experience the fantastic marine life that the Solomons has to offer; and for a very good reason: it’s a barrier island between Marovo Lagoon and the deep blue sea beyond.
With so many really special dive sites around Australia, to ask us to pick our favourite spot is a big ask. But that’s exactly what Bupa Travel Insurance asked us in their recent article, ‘Scuba Diving Adventures Around Australia’.
More often than not, the best diving is off the beaten track. In the case of diving Kadavu and Taveuni, this holds particularly true as their dive sites include the world class dive sites of the Great White Wall, Rainbow Reef and the great Astrolabe Reef.
Munda is unique in all the diving destinations in the Solomon Islands – not just because of great dive sites, but because there’s lots more to explore.
With more divers adventuring to far-flung locations in search of remote, untouched dive sites, DAN is managing incidents that present increasing challenges. Don’t be the one caught out without dive travel insurance.
Lady Elliot Island, on the southern Great Barrier Reef, has great diving year round and being just 10 km from the East Australian Current has visits from mantas, turtles and whales at different times of the year.
Divers Alert Network (DAN) provides expertise when and where you need it whether that’s sensible advice or emergency evacuation from a remote location. I certainly wouldn’t dive overseas without it.
Gili Selang is a little rock attached to the eastern-most tip of Bali’s north-east coast. It is responsible for the amazingly varied coral reef that has formed north of it, where the nutrient-rich waters of the Pacific have been slowed…
Thinking back to a dive holiday there’s usually one thing that stays in your mind it might be Palau’s mantas, Fiji’s shark feeding, and for Indonesia’s Gili Islands it was the diving with turtles.
When many divers hear ‘North Sulawesi’ they actually think ‘muck diving’ as in the infamous Lembeh Strait. But being in the centre of the Coral Triangle North Sulawesi has so much more to offer – something for everyone.