Destinations

There are a number of reasons why Ambon is not yet being affected by mass tourism with its remoteness only one of them.

Purpose-built Tawali resort is hidden in the tropical forests on top of a limestone on the eastern cape of Papua New Guinea, a two-hour drive and ten-minute boat ride from Alotau airport.

It is one of the few places left in the world where a diver can see macro critters, pelagics, and big stuff, as well as fantastic soft and hard corals.

Papua New Guinea occupies half of the third largest island in the world and 160 other islands and 500 named cays.

Most of my holidays revolve around diving, or a place where I can at least snorkel, and the colour dominating my thoughts is always blue.

Cocos Keeling is a widely unknown tropical island paradise but thanks its hosting of an UF11 Fringe Event it is about to be added to the holiday wish list of many of the region’s divers.

A four-hour drive west of Adelaide, Whyalla is a seaside mining town known as the place “where the outback meets the sea”.

There is just something about having a holiday at a resort on an island… Surrounded by sunshine, sand and blue water.

In 2004, a group of Europeans set up the Misool Eco Resort in the middle of nowhere about four hours by speedboat from Sorong, West Papua.

For about a decade now Raja Ampat has been mentioned by pioneering divers as one of the last frontiers of unspoilt diving and many believe diving Raja Ampat represents the pinnacle of marine life diversity possible on this planet.