Dive Review of Tawali Resort in
Papua New Guinea/Milne Bay

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Tawali Resort, Dec, 2006, by Lydia Bezeruk, NCD, PNG . Report 3223.
No photos available at this time
Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Tawali Resort is set in a truly beautiful location in the jungle about an hours drive and 15 minute boat trip from Alotau airport. Run by a combination of Americans and Australians, you are made to feel part of a community as soon as you enter the doors. It has about 15 rooms, large and basic (no TVs) but tastefully designed, each with a balcony looking out through the jungle over the water. Meals are buffet style with the occasional bbq, generally involving fresh fish. Diving facilities are well organised. There is a dive centre with several boats, including 1 large boat which carries about 25 divers and mainly goes to the outer reef about 2 hours away. This boat is well equipped and is positively luxurious compared to some dive boats I've been on, with room for people to accommodate themselves in comfortable deck chairs and read on the trip in and out to the reef. Lunch, snacks, hot and cold drinks are served all day. On the first day, we mainly dived an outer reef site called Little China which had very strong currents and lots of fish I would recommend this only for experienced and fit divers. The second day, we went to Lauanda and Deacons (inner) reefs. Lauanda was a fantastic muck dive: lots of octopus, goatfish, pipefish, eels, nudibrancs and an irrascible brown-marbled grouper who kept attacking divers. And the house reef at the resort is almost as good as the diving!
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	26-50 dives
Where else diving	Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	cloudy	Seas	currents
Water Temp	27-29°C / 81-84°F	Wetsuit Thickness	7
Water Visibility	15-20 M / 49-66 Ft
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	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	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	[None]

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Dive Review of Tawali Resort in Papua New Guinea/Milne Bay

Tawali Resort, Dec, 2006,

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Dive Review of Tawali Resort in
Papua New Guinea/Milne Bay