Fire at Pafco

Whats new in Levuka???

great weather again. lots of whale sightings.

this week has been bussy diving.

my mission for the next couple of weeks diving is to find different species butterflyfish.

bad weather

after four weeks without rain and the island almost turning into a dustball, the good weather spell broke and its horible since wednesday.

the viz inside has been low the last couple of days.

Me and the Tallship Soren Larsen in the back, this veseel shows up in Fiji every august.

Ateca, the divemaster

Te, the boat master

yesterday i found this holophrys on a tree coral, have to keep on visiting it to see if the color will adapt.

levuka passage

levuka passage

Ovalau Diving

here is a scuba diving slideshow. some pictures are taken by friends, most i have taken. all are taken around Ovalau Island and Wakaya.

cyclone gene

Monday the 28 january was quite an exciting day. In the morning we where still considering to go diving. Just after nine after reviewing the cyclon warning center forcast, that was cancelled and the dive boat was brought to kuwukakuwu into the mangroves to be hidden from the winds.

From middday on winds where very strong and gusts where destructive.

Here are some pictures taken during the storm.

Ovalau

Few days before cyclone "Gene" moved through Fiji, I was diving under the Levuka wharf. I found three differnt species ghost pipefish. One of them was this unussual one, first time for me to see this kind, has somebody got a name for it? Here is a picture.

The wharf is allways spectacular when it comes to strange creatures. There are all sorts of different species lionfishes, scorpionfishes, nudibranches, shrimps...

I also found this large frogfish.