September 14 – 19, 2015
After doing the Sawa-i-Lau cave, we headed back to our favorite anchorage at the Blue Lagoon Beach Resort. This place has it all: beautiful scenery, a resort with a great restaurant, a dive shop, great snorkeling, scenic hiking, good protection from the wind, a sand bottom for easy anchoring, lots of activities, and the endlessly-entertaining sea plane. We like every place we’ve been in this general area, but the BLR anchorage is our favorite and feels like home. (Click to enlarge and scroll photos below).
And below, some more pictures we found on our other camera…
We did two dives with the shop: The Crazy Maze and the Nalova Pass. The Crazy Maze has a lot of swim-throughs, canyons and tunnels, and the Navola Pass has lots of coral, tons of fish, and sea turtles. Both were wonderful dives and well worth doing.
(Just a note: None of the dives we’ve done on the west side have been in the same league with the dives on the eastern side of Fiji, but they’re still terrific dives.)
After the dives, a couple of wonderful meals ashore, and a long hike (see next post), we felt we’d done all we wanted to do here. Not that we wouldn’t have been happy to sit there forever, but we were starting to run out of provisions. With a week of cloudy weather coming, we decided this would be a good time to return to the marina and restock our food, wine, propane, clean laundry, etc. It was time to head back south. -Cyndi
