Nagigia Island is located on a 37 acre private island only 45 minutes flying time from Nadi Airport or appoximately 50 minutes by helicopter to the island's helipad. Half of Nagigia Island is on the edge of a 6,000 feet deep water trench exposed to Southern Ocean swells and the beginning of the Great Astrolab Reef, famous worldwide for diving and deepsea fishing of the highest quality. The other half of the Nagigia Island foreshore borders a gorgeous aqua blue lagoon providing spectacular surfiing.
The Resort
The Surfing
The waves were some of the heaviest and biggest I have ever surfed, with one day the faces being 10ft and resembling something like a mini-Teahapoo, really intimidating stuff! There were a few days when we couldn’t actually surf as the white water from the breaks was 20ft thick. If you looked to the horizon you could see what looked like islands floating across the horizon, these were actually offshore bombies, with 30 feet faces, the likes of which would challenge even Laird himself.
On the remote and magnificent island of Nagigia, a new eco-tourist hideaway boasts secluded splendor, and some insane surf. Forget Cloudbreak, this is the NEW spot in Fiji for deep, hollow and thick barrels!!! Like Cloudbreak the island enjoys surf spots that are offshore in the prevailing winds. There is an excellent viewing platform on land near the left hand tube break for spectators and getting those unforgettable barrel pics. http://www.travel.com.au/
The Fishing
Nagigia has world- class deep sea, small boat and rock fishing. The island sits on the edge of a 6,000 ft deep trench. Parts of the island hang over a 1,000 ft drop-off allowing for deep sea game fishing from the rocks. There is also a sea mountain 7 miles south of the island that comes up to 120 ft with sides down to 3,000 ft.
The Diving
Nagigia Island has only recently been discovered as a world class dive location with some of Fiji’s deepest waters, year round outstanding visibility and fish life of a magnitude rarely seen in today’s over exploited world. This is still truly a pristine marine enviroment with wall dives to rival any in the world offering caves, swim throughs and amazing underwater canyons for some very exciting diving adventures - right off the island! This area is a major Manta Ray breeding area as they are frequently seen with very young juveniles cruising along the spectacular wall drop offs and rising from the azure depths to greet diving parties.
The indigo water here is a clear indication that the visibility is truly special, and the water drops quite deep. The dive begins with a gentle slope running down to twenty metres or so. Here the reef is healthy and dominated by lobe and porites corals, and green sponges. Warty finger corals host pretty, pixy hawkfish, white-tailed damsels swim across your approach, green turtles dive from your advance. Once down to twenty metres the reef begins to slope steeply away. Now the landscape in punctuated by deep crevices through which swim black and white banded sea snakes. Gold and green seafans populate the steep bank, taking advantage of the steady currents. Pinktail triggerfish and pinstriped angelfish move up and down the wall.
At certain times during the dive, the bank is so heavily indented that you'll need to swim out a little into the blue. Look down into the deep water here because hammerhead sharks are sometimes glimpsed lurking in the depths. More often though, you'll see small schools of blacktailed barracuda moving on mass through the open sea. http://www.divetheworldfiji.com/
The Windsurfing
What can you say about the Trade Winds blowing offshore consistently strong and fresh! The surf picks up only to provide windsurfers with their dream ride...