With roughly 25 dive sites easily accessed from the shore-based dive boats – the closest dive site 5 minute boat ride and the farthest only 75 minutes away – you can spend your entire time at the resort, if you wish.

Two dives per day is the common schedule, leaving at 9am and returning 4pm, with lunch provided on one of the deserted islands nearby. On request, three dives per day – and/or night dives can usually be arranged.

You’ll find three dive boats operating from the resort daily. The newest vessel is “Cheyne”. At 33 feet in length, she is an aluminum, purpose built dive boat fitted with GPS and fresh water tanks. “Emma” and “Charmaine” are a little smaller, of a similar design. The boats take 8-12 divers each to the many beautiful Walindi Reefs in Kimbe Bay.

Kimbe Bay profits from the currents merging here from the Bismarck Sea, the Solomon Sea and the Coral Sea, bringing an exceptionally rich influx of nutrients which support a varied and plentiful marine life – and ranging from the miniscule to the massive. You’ll find vertical walls, ledges, overhangs, pinnacles and several large caverns.

In, on, under, over and around all of these, are the hard and soft corals & sponges this area is so famous for – gorgonian fans, sea whips, black corals, barrel sponges and elephant ear sponges. The rope sponges hanging from the walls at Hanging Gardens can reach up to 3 meters in length!

It’s a well established fact that 70% of all coral species in the Indo/Pacific region are found in Kimbe Bay and the sheer numbers of fish, critter and coral species simply surpasses the imagination.

Just a few amongst the many are: blennies, damselfish, spiny devilfish, titan triggerfish, panda anemone fish, porcelain crabs, gobies, colorful anthias, butterfly fish and long nose hawkfish. of course, there are numerous invertebrates including nudibranchs, shrimp, feather duster worms and the occasional octopus.

At some of the sites you will encounter schools of fusiliers, various species of trevally and barracuda feeding in the currents, plus gray reef sharks, bumphead parrotfish, humphead wrasse, turtles, dogtooth tuna, and when conditions are right, scalloped hammerheads.

You can add to the list resident pods of spinner and bottlenose dolphins, sperm, pilot and humpback whales – and even orcas have been making appearances the past few years.

Just a few minutes from Walindi is a site known as Hanging Gardens, teeming with large sponges and critter life. You will find countless incredible sites, among them: Christine’s Reef, Valerie’s Reef and Susan’s Reef which lure photographers back again & again for shots of immensely colorful corals, sponges & gorgonians, plus massive sea fans, vibrant red sea whips and all the vast variety of creatures who build their homes in these exciting underwater “forests”.

Farther out into the bay’s waters are North & South Emma – reefs teeming with oddly-named marine life – fire dartfish, elegant firefish, two-tone dartfish, twinspot gobies – plus hard & soft corals and sponges . . but home also to pinnacles & drop-offs which attract loads of pelagics – tuna, trevally, barracuda, several types of sharks and divers always particularly appreciate the Hammerheads.

And, if it’s sharks you’re after, don’t miss Kimbe Island Bommie where you find quantities of shark species amongst other pelagics.

And honestly, that just scratches the surface . . .