Every year this regions hosts photographers who produce prize-winning shots from the surrounding waters. It's a rare thing to attend an underwater photography competition that doesn't include a prize winning photo or film shot in Kimbe Bay.

Most often, photographers spend at least a part of their time at the warm & welcoming Walindi Plantation Resort, with its remarkable house reef, coral gardens and critters . . . . and easy access to shallow fringing reefs, plunging walls and pinnacles.

We cannot possibly say enough good things - about Walindi . . . and about the diving in the immediate area.  And, based at Walindi is one of Dom's all-time personal favorite liveaboards, FeBrina and her new sister ship, Oceania.

Tawali Resort can be your home base here for land-based diving . . . and the Chertan liveaboard is based at Tawali and will take you further afield. Also, the Golden Dawn does Milne Bay itineraries at certain times of the year.

The area can be dived year round, with November to February bringing the very best diving conditions and May to September bringing the heaviest rainfall.

Over 30 dive sites exist including walls, drop offs, reef channels, drifts, coral bommies, 3 wrecks and a WWII Boston Bomber.

While Loloata's critter reputation is undeniable, you mustn't think that critters is all there is! The waters of Bootless Bay contain substantial wrecks where the tubastrea, soft corals and fans grow in a vast range of colors. On these wrecks you'll see anthias and glass fish, long-nose hawkfish and pipefish and masses of pelagics.

Diving here is simply as good as it gets.

Further out you find Mulloway Reef and Cyclone Reef, both of which host lovely corals and attract schools of large fish and pelagics - tuna, trevally, barracuda, eagle rays & manta rays, several varieties of sharks, turtles and fairly frequent visiting hammerhead sharks.

When conditions are right, very experienced divers may have the opportunity to do a decompression dive to explore 2 very complete American PT Cruisers, sunk in 1942.

Kavieng is a small, friendly town on the northern tip of New Ireland - which saw intense fighting between the Japanese & Allied forces near the end of the Second World War .

Our preferred operators here are Lissenung Island Resort and Golden Dawn liveaboard, which offers Kavieng itineraries at certain times of the year. 

Golden Dawn is currently accepting full charters only ... so please contact us if this possiblity is of interest to your group.

Don't mistake that fact to mean these are calm seas. In fact, the submerged reefs here can only be dived for a couple of months during the year, due to sea conditions. And, as far as we know, the only Captain who knows the territory well enough to navigate it is Craig Dewit of the Golden Dawn.

Should you be lucky enough to be one of the elite group of divers to dive the Eastern Fields, you will find massive drop-offs in clear blue waters, populated with unbelievable corals and nutrient-rich currents that bring marine species of all sizes and persuasions!

Action, color & creativity are the driving forces and visitors who attend the shows are in for the treat of their lives. The tribe members wear body paint, face tatoos, fantastic costumes & headdresses.  The dancers move in frenzied rhythms to the ever-present beat of the drums.

The most renowned of the festivals are the Mount Hagen (August) and Goroka (September). Tribes compete with one another and participants & observers alike come from all over Papua New Guinea and all over the world .... so reservations need to be made well in advance.