October 30, 2015
That’s what we’re calling it ’cause we don’t know what it’s officially called (or even what official is in charge of that kind of thing!). This is a bay near the south end of Matacawalevu Island in Fiji’s Yasawa chain of islands. Cyndi spotted it on Google Earth and she fell in love with it from afar. (Click to enlarge and scroll through gallery below.)
Now that we’ve visited, the love affair continues, but only in good weather. Yep. We’re fair-weather friends of Long Beach Bay!
The anchorage is shallow (we anchored in 20 feet of sand) and protected from a few directions (north, northeast, not directly east, southeast) but not from westerlies. That’s what we got yesterday evening. Roll, roll, roll. But safe.
There are two attractions in the bay that we know of: Navutu Stars Resort and Long Beach (yep, it’s a long beach, alright!). There might also be some good snorkeling, but we didn’t get a chance to try it out.
There’s a very shallow area in front of Long Beach to traverse so high tide is the time to go ashore. (You can see from one of the pictures that we weren’t quite that smart.)
Here’s our post about the incredible Navutu Stars Resort: link.
Our route into the bay can be found on our Fiji Information page (Western Fiji Routes)
