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Sawa-i-Lau Blue Lagoon

Yasawa Islands · Fiji

Sawa-i-Lau is a limestone island rising from the Yasawa chain with a cave system that partially floods at high tide, creating ethereal blue chambers where shafts of sunlight refract through submerged cave entrances into the dark interior. Green turtles nest on the island's beaches and rest on the shallow reef platform outside the caves, often approached to within a few metres by snorkellers and divers. The cave diving experience here is accessible and non-technical, with easy in-and-out navigation through spacious cavern passages.

Conditions

Depth

3 to 20 m

Open water and up

Current

Can be moderate

Can pick up on the edge

Visibility

25 to 35 m

Clearest in the calm season

Water

22 to 29°C

5mm wetsuit

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Gear

  • Basic kit

    • Mask and fins
    • BCD and regulator
    • 5mm full wetsuit · cooler water
    • Dive computer