The principal reason that people travel to Kadavu is for the phenomenal diving. The Great Astrolabe Reef is a fringing reef and Fiji's largest living organism. It extends along the entire southern side of Kadavu and stretches for over 120km. It is rated as one of the fiji's premier diving locations offering great diversity, and spectacular coral structures and marine life.

The Diving

Uncrowded diving on virgin reefs, with well over a dozen world class sites with an enormous variety for divers of all levels. All these wonderful sites are within five to thirty minutes by boat from the resort.   Visibility rarely goes below 25 metres and there is a fantastic variety of fish and coral to be found here.

The Great Astrolabe Reef offers a huge variety of fish life and an equally diverse range of both hard and soft corals.  Astrolabe is the third largest reef in the world yet possibly the most unexplored. ‘Virgin Diving’ is a term often flaunted but is the best way to describe the diving from Matava. There are whole segments of the Astrolabe reef no one has ever dived or even seen; it is all just waiting to be explored. Astrolabe is renowned for the prolific amount of large fish and great pelagics are a common sight on these reefs.

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The Dive Locations:

Naiqoro Passage.
Home of Spot X and the Japanese Gardens, this passage is one of the finest dives in Fiji. A kilometre and a half drift dive with non stop walls crowded withpurple and pink soft corals and coral gardens exploding with amazing colour. The area abounds in fish life including schools  of sharks, wrasse and barracuda plus millions of fish overhead.

Golden Chimney 
This delightful dive is found in the Soso Passage. The Golden Chimney is a large coral structure completely covered in golden soft corals, which, when blooming, light up the entire area. Gorgonian fans, moray eels, reef sharks and the soft corals are highlights of this area.

Manta Ray Reef
This has been known for quite a few years to just a handful of local Fijian divers, who  now have graciously let us in on their secret. 

About 35 minutes from Matava on the southern extremity of the great Astrolabe Reef,  a series of bommies at 15-30 metres in depth run parallel to the outer wall.  As you descend beneath the surface it is actually quite difficult to pay much attention to the beautiful hard and soft corals, fans and anenomes or explore the numerous arches, crevices and caves connecting these bommies when  the giant manta rays   glide gracefully by, some  with spans of up to 4-5 metres.  Reef sharks, turtles and eagle rays are often seen at this site, all relegated to minor roles.  According to locals who have known of this site for years the mantas are always there. And we haven’t had a disappointed customer yet!

Nacomoto Passage
This passage includes Eagle Rock and Nacomoto Wall. Eagle Rock is named after the schools of Eagle Rays which constantly glide around the bommie at the mouth of this passage. This dive also typically hosts schools of reef sharks, barracuda and pairs of turtles. Nacomoto wall is home to one of the biggest cabbage coral patches a diver is ever likely to encounter.

Reef sharks, bump nose wrasse and colourful schools of reef fish are commonly seen on this relaxing dive.

The Pinnacles
The Pinnacles is a dive site outside the main reef with a wealth of hard coral structures, swim throughs and reef fish galore. The extremely good visibility makes this dive a photographers dream.