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Tawali Leisure & Dive Resort

$2475 USD / 7 nights

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The Tawali Leisure and Dive Resort is hidden away in Milne Bay between local fishing villages. As the resort was developing, there was no electricity to aid in its creation. This means that the resort is truly handmade, as power tools were never used.

Tawali Leisure & Dive Resort WEATHER

There are two styles of accommodation offered; the Double Standard Room and Ocean Villa. The Double Standard Room has one double and one single bed. The room is air conditioned and has a balcony with a view of the crystal blue sea. In the private bathroom, guests find a collection of toiletries to make packing carefree. The Ocean Villa has two rooms with a master bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and dining room. The Villa is furnished with three double beds and two single beds. In the two private bathrooms, guests find toiletries as well. All accommodations have air conditioning and ceiling fans to ensure a comfortable stay. Bathrooms are tiled, modern, and use solar power to heat the water.

Tawali has pristine diving conditions with unique experiences for divers. Not only does it have some of the most diverse marine life in the world, but there are several wrecks from World War II to explore. This includes Black Jack B17F Flying Fortress bomber at Cape Vogel. The house reef holds so much diversity and life that it is best to plan multiple dives. Divers encounter stargazers, epaulet sharks, octopus, ghost pipefish, sea horses, Mandarin fish, and harlequin shrimp. Another site named Sponge Heaven is a wall dive that starts shallow and has a large variety of sponges and nudibranchs. This site is perfect for night diving. Wahoo Point is a shelf that goes from fifteen to fifty feet deep and has a shear wall that drops down to two hundred feet. Divers encounter hammerhead sharks, manta rays, and the occasional whale shark and orcas.

Dive Conditions

You can dive Papua New Guinea year-round, but conditions change based on which sea you are diving. Water temperatures range from 77-86°F (25-30°C) throughout the country, and visibility usually ranges from 66-130ft (20-40m) unless you are diving at muck diving sites or sites near mangrove swamps. Water temperatures average about 79F (26C) along the edge of the Milne Bay and Coral Sea, and 88F (31C) in Kimbe Bay and the Bismark Sea.

The diving in Papua New Guinea is centered around Milne Bay in the South (Solomon & Coral Seas), Kimbe Bay (Bismarck & Solomon Seas), and Kavieng town or Lissenung Island. Divers and underwater photographers flock to Papua New Guinea to see its coral atolls and walls, WWII wrecks, barrier reefs and many other wide-angle and macro photography underwater subjects for which the Indo-Pacific is famous.

Located in Asia Pacific's Coral Triangle, Papua New Guinea lies just south of the equator and 100 miles (160km) to the north of Australia, encompassing the eastern side of New Guinea Island plus 600 smaller islands and atolls. There are 28,000 miles (45,000kms) of reef systems, so it's a destination where divers rarely come across other groups. It is home to some of the world's most spectacular scuba diving, with various dive resort and liveaboard options for every diver.