Fiji diving

In article <43095808$0$5427$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>,
craigpt@iinet.com.au (craig) wrote:

> *From:* craig <craigpt@iinet.com.au>
> *Date:* Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:43:53 +1000

> we live in Australia and want to go diving in Fiji, we are looking at
> staying at
> Susies Plantation with pro dive... would like to know if anyone has
> been to Fiji diving before ?
>
> If so what are your thoughts ?
>
> Can we just fly there and find our own dive centre or is it better to
> pre plan with a dive centre ??
> we are going from the 1st October 2005 till the 8th October 2005 ...

We flew from Brisbane to Fiji, and we stayed at The Hideaway Resort over a
new year, we had no pre planned diving arranged, i think that it would be
best to arrange before in hindsight, we had seen brochures for one
particular dive op that was located along the coast at Pacific Harbour, a
taxi collected us on the morn of diviing, when we arrived at the "dive
center" it looked like it had been abandoned twenty years before, the pool
was all dried up, no office to speak of, not kit to be seen.....any way a
dive guide appeared, and after a while we got on a "ok" boat......did some
nice dives that day, but check out the dive ops before you go..........


Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk

craig <craigpt@iinet.com.au> pounded away at his keyboard resulting
in:

:Hi All,
:
:we live in Australia and want to go diving in Fiji, we are looking at
:staying at
:Susies Plantation with pro dive... would like to know if anyone has
:been to Fiji diving before ?
:
:Can we just fly there and find our own dive centre or is it better to
re plan with a dive centre ??
:we are going from the 1st October 2005 till the 8th October 2005 ...
:
:any thoughts would be welcomed


Been twice. Trip reports here,

http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/Trips/Fiji.htm

and here

http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/Trips/Fiji2004.htm.

If it were my trip, I'd find a resort right on the water with an
on-site dive shop. I just don't like spending my vacation time
looking for entertainment suppliers, I prefer to do that in advance.


Dan Bracuk
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In article <44lkg1tjc2db8i66ep4i0vnarcf28bvt7u@4ax.com>,
NOTbracuk@pathcom.com (Dan Bracuk) wrote:

>
> If it were my trip, I'd find a resort right on the water with an
> on-site dive shop.

Absolutely, especially there.
Pacific Harbour looked a beautiful place, kinda like Playa Del Carmen.

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk

Hi All,

we live in Australia and want to go diving in Fiji, we are looking at
staying at
Susies Plantation with pro dive... would like to know if anyone has
been to Fiji diving before ?

If so what are your thoughts ?

Can we just fly there and find our own dive centre or is it better to
pre plan with a dive centre ??
we are going from the 1st October 2005 till the 8th October 2005 ...

any thoughts would be welcomed

Thanks all for reading

In article <43095808$0$5427$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>,
craigpt@iinet.com.au (craig) wrote:

> *From:* craig <craigpt@iinet.com.au>
> *Date:* Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:43:53 +1000

> we live in Australia and want to go diving in Fiji, we are looking at
> staying at
> Susies Plantation with pro dive... would like to know if anyone has
> been to Fiji diving before ?
>
> If so what are your thoughts ?
>
> Can we just fly there and find our own dive centre or is it better to
> pre plan with a dive centre ??
> we are going from the 1st October 2005 till the 8th October 2005 ...

We flew from Brisbane to Fiji, and we stayed at The Hideaway Resort over a
new year, we had no pre planned diving arranged, i think that it would be
best to arrange before in hindsight, we had seen brochures for one
particular dive op that was located along the coast at Pacific Harbour, a
taxi collected us on the morn of diviing, when we arrived at the "dive
center" it looked like it had been abandoned twenty years before, the pool
was all dried up, no office to speak of, not kit to be seen.....any way a
dive guide appeared, and after a while we got on a "ok" boat......did some
nice dives that day, but check out the dive ops before you go..........


Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK
Take out the "goes diving" bit....
Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk