It Was Blue t i f u l

Return guests

New guests

Friends on board

Such a lovely mix!

This was the trip in which divers got welcomed into the water by schools of barracudas… if it didn’t happen almost every day, it didn’t happen at all!

Matt Parvis

Sam Celereau

Helen is completely in love with the different colored chromis all around the reef. 

We were searching for nudis... can you find it? ~  Matt Parvis

Sam Celereau 

Matt is still (second time here in Fiji) astounded at the girth of the leopard blennies.

They are indeed, c h u n k y fish. 

Whip coral shrimp ~ Sam Celereau

Beautiful cuts absolutely covered in sea fans and lines with soft corals bursting at the seams. 

Sam Celereau

Fiji played France in Rugby on our first day of diving… let’s just say the crew were not offering up the game results to our two French men on board that night… 

Sexy shrimp ~ Sam Celereau

Some dive sites are always a crowd pleaser; others you need the currents for them or the divers for the currents. 

Sam Celereau

Mellow Yellow is always so full of life; from the popcorn shrimp to the huge blue dragons to camouflaged scorpionfish and all the fusiliers constantly dancing around. 

“No fish, no color…” - Andy (haha). 

Such a beautiful flabellina ~ Sam Celereau

It is hard to phantom or understand at times the amount of hardcoral coverage we have in Vatu-i-Ra at the moment… There are some areas in which you can see nothing beyond corals. 

Sam Celereau

Mantas for forty minutes; lucky lefties were real lucky on this day!

Shirley came in twice during the day; “We had one that looked 14 feet!” - Ted. Yes, that is our big Shirley; she is as massive as she is lovely. 

Beautiful NEW manta named ROBIN, in honor of one of our guests who had to go back to land due to a horrible ear incident; now a manta has appeared in his honor~ Matt Parvis

School of barracudas that were either super excited about divers or running away from everything: coming and going constantly. 

Golden mantis shrimp ~ Sam Celereau

Sybille spotted a zebra shark that we all got to enjoy on the next dive as it didn’t move from its resting spot. 

Rupert found two leafy scorpionfish huddled together as he, Helen and Sam enjoyed a lovely manta. 

Jump scare: hammer head shark sneaked up on us. 

Nicely camouflaged leafy scorpionfish ~ Sam Celereau

Napoleon wrasses, big turtle, white banded cleaner shrimps ready to clean, and yellow nose shrimpgobies. 

Golden mantis shrimp behaving like a cat with a toy towards a pointer stick. 

Dirk and little Setoki at Makogai ~ Dirk

Our first dive was a real pleasure; ‘bluetiful’ waters, barracudas greeting one group, hammerhead shark greeting the other, so many big eyed trevally and grey reef sharks circling. 

Hinge beak shrimp ~ Sam Celereau

Even a twirling juvenile rock mover wrasse in the rubble that left EVERYONE slack jawed! “What is that creature?” Little crazy juvenile, and a wrasse of course!

Sam Celereau

“I think I have seen more on that dive than ever.” - Terri, Magic Shrooms

Pontohi pygmy sea horse ~ Sam Celereau

“That was a fantastic dive.” - Andy after having all the fusiliers around, diving at 3m on top of one of the pinnacles. 

Soaring through the water column. 

Sam Celereau

He calls fangblennies gangster gobies… I can see that sticking. 

Schooling bannerfish ~ Sam Celereau

Dodo saw the crouchers and flame hawkfish; she came out of the water pretty excited!

Sam travelling through passages ~ Sam Celereau

Last day at the sea mounts was just perfect. 

Sun, ocean, coral and fish all around!

“Andy, did you see a ‘turtel’?”

Vinaka vakalevu everyone!

We hope to see you again somewhere, someday!