Dolphin Bay Resort

So we had been in Savu Savu for a day or two and were desperate to do some diving or surfing or at least some snorkelling over some reef so we decided to head up to an island called Tavenuui which has one of the ten best dive sites in Fiji called rainbow reef.  We bought our bus tickets and got the bus the very next day.  Greg said he would be back in about a week and would we like to help sail the boat back to Denaru and we said yes so we agreed to meet up in a weeks time.  We set off for Tavenui at 06:30am by bus.  Well we say 06:30 but it was on Fiji time so the bus left at more like 07:30.  We had a 2hr bus journey along the coast and through mountains and jungle, it was pretty cool.  We stopped by a village and about 15 people got on an already packed bus, it was chocca.  Luckily most of them were kids so they did not take up too much extra room.  

We arrived the ferry port which was a field with a rock jetty. Then some one else who was also staying at dolphin bay came up to us and said the manager lady was on the phone and we should speak to her.  She arranged for a boat to pick us up in about an hour.  We then sped round to Dolphin Bay and it was frickin beautiful.  Pretty much like all the pictures you see of tropical paradise.  A white sand beach with palm trees and turquoise water.  We stayed here for about 3 days and had 2 dives on Rainbow reef.  

The first one was Purple Wall, which as the name suggests is a wall with loads of purple coral growing on it.  We also saw a clown trigger fish, grouper and the usual millions of species I don’t know the name of.  The second dive was at a place called Jerry’s Jelly which was a drift dive.  We saw 2 white tip reef sharks, a blue ribbon eel and garden eels.  There was this wicked current that shoots you up over a under water hill.  So much fun.  We also saw some ghost coral which starts off brown and when you touch it it turns white.  It is really difficult to describe how cool diving is especially with my dulled literary skills.

We also did lots of snorkeling at Dolphin Bay where we saw a sting ray, a red big eye fish and again millions of other fish.  We also saw a banded sea snake, which Things kindly reminded me has a venom 20 times more potent than the most poisonous land snake.   Luckily it has rubbish teeth so cant actually harm humans unless you allow it to bite the skin between your thumb and fore finger.   

Dolphin Resort also had 2 dogs which we instantly befriended as we love dogs.  It also had about 10 cats.  We went for walk to the next bay and took one of the dogs with us.  She instantly became our friend after we fed her some pizza crusts at lunch. Typical dog, cupboard love.  

By Stuff