Beqa Lagoon
Beqa Lagoon is the most well-known of Fiji's tourist attractions. Beqa Lagoon, sometimes known as the Pacific's "Shark Capital," is located in Pacific Harbour on Fiji's main island of Viti Levu. This lovely lagoon, located south of Viti Levu, has over 100 different dive sites to select from, offering something for every style of scuba diver. Explore the sunken shipwreck in Carpet Cove or see colorful soft corals at Caesar's Rocks. Shark Reef Marine Reserve, a protected refuge home to eight different shark species, is also worth a visit for adventurous divers.
Beqa Island is a popular destination for tourists looking to get right into the water without flying to the outer islands. When you dive from your Fiji diving resort, you can explore a range of locations such as pinnacles and bommies, bordering reefs, and even a wreck or two.
While the lagoon diving at Beqa Island is not the greatest in Fiji, it is among the best in Viti Levu, with many satisfied scuba divers returning year after year. It is aslo one of the best diving sites in Fiji. You won't find the same diversity or quantity of reef fish as in Nigali or the soft corals of Namena in the Koro Sea, but there is plenty of reef life here, including countless fish, sharks, and octopus, as well as some massive fans and healthy soft corals.
If you want to go shark diving in Fiji, this is the best place to go. You may swim with whitetip sharks, tawny nurses, bull sharks, and tiger sharks. Shark dives are conducted every day, and you may expect to see up to 50 bull sharks in a single dive. If you don't want to dive with bull sharks, you can also dive with tiger sharks, silver tip, grey, white tip, or black tip reef sharks, lemon sharks, and many other species. Shark diving at Beqa Lagoon is something that every diver should do at least once in their lives.
The lagoon boasts about 100 square miles of pure blue water encircled by 30 solid kilometers of barrier reef. This makes it one of the largest barrier reefs in the planet. Because of this geographical characteristic, the water temperature in Beqa Lagoon stays at 26°C for the most of the year, and there are only gentle currents.
