Nananu-i-Ra

This is an accidental discovery on our part. No tour books or cruiser advice directed us to stop in Nananu-i-Ra, it just looked like a safe place to anchor on our trip back to Denarau.  After wending our way through the entrance reefs we pulled into the perfect parking spot between two sail boats who where up against the island. Beautiful scenery of lovely resort homes to our front, the clear blue ocean to our rear – perfect sunset watching location and the main island of Viti Levu off to our right. There are a couple of resorts on the points facing us on Viti Levu and they are open to outside diners which is a plus, so we'll check that out another day. Diving looked like it would be the thing to do with all of the surrounding reefs (and you know we hate diving J) so we rang up Papoo Divers who are located on the island and arranged to go out the next day. Papoo and his fellows did not disappoint us. They arrived on time to pick us up from the boat and we sped off to the first dive site, Golden Dream. There are two other divers with us, so it is a small group which is the excellent (the only way to be better would be if it were only Glen and I). Golden Dream was exactly that – the tall rock pinnacles were densely covered with beautiful golden soft corals, there were enormous fan corals and of course everything else. It was a fabulous dive that only needed a touch of filtering sunshine to make it glow.  Our next dive spot was "Canadian Mushroom". We figured that Papoo was pulling our leg(s) with the name, but he said "no, it was named by a couple of Canadian girls who dove with him when it (the site) was un-named". It turns out to also be an awesome dive. O.K., so now we are hooked, instead of picking up and heading out to the Yasawa group, as was our original plan, we make the choice to stay here for the next four days and dive some more.