Dive Review of Matava in
Fiji and Tuvalu/Kadavu

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Matava, Jun, 2011, by Elizabeth Crapo, ID, US ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports). Report 6414.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
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Comments	After you take a Twin Otter from Nadi, resort personnel will pick you up at the Kadavu airport for the hour-plus boat ride to Matava. The resort is "off the grid," and is accessible only by boat. Bures (bungalows) have no electricity but you get a gas lantern to use after the sun goes down. The bures have hot water, mosquito nets and nice beds. You are summoned to meals by a drum, and everything is served family style. The food was very good, and the staff was always cheerful and helpful. The diving was great as well. It is often tide/current dependent. A couple were just OK, but most of them were great. The reef is healthy, mostly hard coral, but some sites have soft corals as well. There was a site just outside the lagoon where manta rays regularly hang out. They have a cool topside excursion where you go to a Fijian village and a waterfall. It's a double waterfall, where you have to scramble up the first one with the help of the locals to a pool below the second one, which is in what you could almost call a cave. It's one of the best waterfalls I've ever seen. The local boys entertain you by jumping from the cliffs. If you are into fishing, the resort does fishing charters as well. There's a reef in front of the resort where you can snorkel or dive at high tide, as well as a small island with a nice beach. I had a great time at Matava and would love to go back. Great diving, great staff, beautiful resort. If you like the idea of really getting away from it all, in a low-environmental-impact type of place, you will probably like it here as well. If you insist on an infinity pool and nonfat soy-milk lattes, maybe not.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Guam, Bali, Dominica, Roatan, Bermuda, French Polynesia, Key West
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents
Water Temp	80-85°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Bring extra batteries if you can. Matava is "off the grid," and they don't always run the generator. I was always able to get my battery charged, but I would have felt better having a backup.

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Dive Review of Matava in Fiji and Tuvalu/Kadavu

Matava, Jun, 2011,

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Dive Review of Matava in
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