Diving in Rarotonga was a big disappointment there are no corals to speak of the reefs look dead, there are a lot of Christmas tree worm colonies but not much else.

The fish are great and I have got a few photos of these to show.

We had a few nice days but it rained a lot which turned the lagoon into silt filled water not good for snorkelling and not so good visibility on the outer reef for diving.

All in all I wouldn't go there for diving again Fiji was much better.

sorry to hear that fay, look foward to the fish pics though

Bummer Fay That must have been a major letdown after building up for it. Sorry to rub it in but Fiji was brilliant diving (except for getting a head cold half way through the holiday)

Look forward to the fishie pics though

sorry top hear Fay. but good to have you back, the site has been a bit slow lately

Fay - Shame Raro didn't deliver the good for you, although its probably not fair to say its like that everywhere. Reefs get destroyed by the weather etc. I just had a friend come back from Raro, an experanced dive with over 1000 logged dives. he loved it, said that the hard coral reefs he dived were stunning and send me some outstanding photos, including large shoals of bump head warasses in schools. It depends where you go and when.

Tonga - I've just come back from 2 weeks diving in Tonga, mostly in the Vavau island group. Some of the nicest hard coral diving i've ever seen. Temprature was 22 degrees in the water. 9/10.

Fiji - Diving on the coral coast is poor, but elsewhere can be stunning. Kadavu in particular (the Great Astrolab Reef) is awesome. Fiji is famous world wide for its soft corals.

Pie

nice to see you posting pies. Miss your experience.

Reefs get destroyed by the weather etc. I just had a friend come back from Raro, and experanced dive with over 1000 logged dives. he loved it

Yes that is what they said cyclones stuffed it up big time, where in Raro did he dive must have been the outer islands?

Bummer Fay That must have been a major letdown after building up for it. Sorry to rub it in but Fiji was brilliant diving

Yea did Fiji last year Taveuni thats where we learnt to dive absolute fab

nice photos, what depth were those eels at?

what depth were those eels at?

The first three were somewhere between 16 to 12 mtrs

The yellow one on the end was in the lagoon 3 to 2 mtrs

Loved the eels

The shark was not interested in getting his photo taken he was resting in the rocks and when I went down to take his photo he buggered off.

Did you notice the state of the reef (not good)

Photos not to bad I have had to edit them because of the weather making the water not very clear and it is the first time I have taken underwater photos.

Some more photos to follow

Fabulous Photos Fay :bounce:

Loved the Picasso Trigger

I want to go now. That looks awsome.

Reef is not in too good a shape is it. Shame as it seems as there are some very nice fish swimming about. I like the spotted boxfish or were they toby's?

(sorry Reef refers to the pics not the one on here )

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Awesone pics Fay :bounce: :bounce:

Thanks Fay - great.

Must be nice to see the fish we keep swimming in their natural enviroment.

Still looks good and going on holiday is always fun no mater what happens i recon.