Dive Review of Waidroka Bay resort in
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Waidroka Bay resort: "Nice small resort in Fiji", Apr, 2022, by Joel Hirsh, CT, US ( Reviewer 4 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 11911.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Waidroka Bay is a small (max 31 guests) resort with an interesting mix of divers (mostly from US) and surfers (mostly from Australia). There are 7 free-standing ‘bures’ near the water which look native on the outside (thatched roofs, etc) but very modern on the inside. Some have two bedrooms. There is also a block of 5 double rooms on the hill. All are air-conditioned. The staff is very friendly and accommodating. Breakfast is ordered the night before (so the kitchen has an idea of what to make, but not for a specific time) from a long list of typical egg and non-egg choices. There is a long lunch menu which is also ordered after breakfast. But since the dive sites are typically 25-40 minutes away, we always had lunch on the boat between 2nd and 3rd dives. Lunch was a wrap or some chicken/fish rice/potato combination. Dinners were set each night with a soup/appetizer, main course and dessert. The kitchen would accommodate diet preferences. All the food had good flavors but not overly spicy. The dive operation was well run. Tanks had good fills (3100-3200 psi) but no Nitrox available. BCDs and regulators were taken by the crew off at the end of the day and rinsed, and set up again the next morning. Separate rinse tanks for wetsuits, other gear and cameras. The 2 dive boats have wide decks (pontoon hulls) with room to move around. There were more surfers than divers when I was there, so the dive boat was never crowded. Would be less elbow room with a bigger crowd. I needed some help with my tanks (recovering from surgery) and the crew was very helpful getting both off and on the boat. The local dive guides know the sites but moved a little fast for me. But all the sites were easy to navigate and buddies splitting off from the group was not a problem. Most of sites had moorings on bommies in 10-20' that made great safety stops with nice coral gardens and lots of small fish. Deeper corals were not in as good shape for the most part. Smaller fish in large schools (like fusiliers and anthias) were on most sites, along with some very large anemones and their accompanying anemone fishes. Spotted a nice number of nudibranches. But compared to Indonesia, the variety of fish and critter species was not as impressive. The shark dive(s) were fun. It is in a location where fishermen have always dumped their fish guts, so it is just capitalizing on what was happening anyway. Divers sit @ 60' behind a low rubble wall and watch the ‘show’ for about 25 minutes. Dive masters are also along the wall to nudge any of the more curious sharks away if they get closer than a couple of feet. We saw mostly various reef sharks (grey, silver and white tips), nurse sharks and a few bull sharks. A tiger shark was sighted a couple of weeks before. We were accompanied by some dolphins one day and a pod of 10-11 pilot whales another day which hung around for quite a while. One day we went out with some surfers, and dove near one of the major surfer ‘breaks’. We were able to watch surfers during the surface intervals. Awesome.
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Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean, Australia, PNG, Philippines, Indonesia
Closest Airport	NAN	Getting There	Fiji Airways from LAX or SFO to Nadi (NAN) then a 2.5 hr drive to the resort. Transfers included in packages.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm, surge, currents
Water Temp	85-°F / 29-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-60 Ft/ 12-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	50 minutes, but some extended past 60 minutes
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Other than a large bucket on the boat and a separate rinse tank on shore, there isn't anything dedicated to photography. Bring a 220v power strip for your room since the number of outlets is limited.

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Dive Review of Waidroka Bay resort in Fiji and Tuvalu

Waidroka Bay resort: "Nice small resort in Fiji", Apr, 2022,

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Dive Review of Waidroka Bay resort in
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