Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Fiji Favorites from 2011 & 2014

Fiji Favorites from 2011 and 2014

Well, local California diving conditions have been reliably poor for a while now so, in anticipation of my trip on the Nai'a diving liveaboard that starts one month from today I decided to post some favorite pictures from my last two trips to Fiji.  This trip is special because it will also commemorate, to the day, my getting my NASDS scuba diving certification by Pops Dive Shop in Clearwater, FL, 50 years ago!  Oh, and did I ever marry well!  Donna loves tropical diving but to economize decided to let me take this trip without her.

Our trip (my diving friend and former co worker Guy Foster is also going on the trip) starts from Lautoka, on the west coast of Viti Levu, Fiji and we will first be diving in the "Bligh Waters" named for the region of Fiji Bligh visited shortly after being sent off in the longboat from the Bounty after the infamous mutiny.  Here's a few shots from our shore based diving in the Bligh Water region from the visit Donna and I made to this part of Fiji on our way to the Solomon Islands to dive with the Bilikiki in 2011.

 An example of a mutualistic form of symbiotic relationship, this species of gobie and bulldozer shrimp share a burrow.  The shrimp burrows and provides shelter, the gobie provides the early warning system.
                              Beautiful invertebrate life including Fiji's outstanding soft corals.

                                                      Golden Sea Fan

                      Count the fish!




                                          Sea Snake, the highly venomous Banded Sea Krait


In 2014 Donna and I spent three weeks on Vanua Levu, Fiji's second largest island.  We'll also be diving some of these same general areas on next month's trip on the Nai'a.  http://www.naia.com.fj/

Here's a sampling from this great time snorkeling and scuba diving:

                                          Nemo!

                               Donna with a marine dentist, a cleaner shrimp!

                                       Donna with clownfish

                                         Donna trying sign language with a giant clam!


                                          Ribbon Eel

                                          Scorpionfish

                                          Mating Pacific Bigfin Reef Squid


For more from these trips please go to the link below:

https://goo.gl/photos/WWZvvy4rQVmNgzKBA





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