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Tonga- Vava’u- Snorkel with the Humpback Whales

THE ADVENTURE

Tonga is one of the only places in the world where you can snorkel with whales up close.

Every year from July to November the whales complete their migration from the cold feeding waters south of New Zealand and Australia, to the warmer tropical waters of Tonga where they give birth to calves and perform courtship readying themselves for the next season.

This adventure will allow you to experince a once in a lifetime whale watch tour and witness these enormous and majextic creatures in their natural environment.

All tours will be accompanied by experinced local skippers and qualified whale watch guides.

Did you know that a Humpback Whale averages 15 metres in length and can weighup to 45 tonnes. The females give birth to a single calf, usually every third year. Tonga is an ideal nursery, as it provides sheltered areaswith shallow warm water. Here the carves suckle the fat-rich milk, which helps them to quickly grow and lay down a layer of blubber in preparation for the journey south to the chilly Antarctic waters.

DATES

September 2019 – Dates yet to be confirmed. Email us on [email protected] to register your interest.

9 days/ 8 nights ex Brisbane

PRICE

Based on current pricing budget $5,000 for this bucket list experience.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Air and Taxes
Return flights ex Brisbane to Vava’u via Nadi- Fiji Airways
Australian departure taxes and applicable airline taxes (subject to change)

Accommodation and Transfers
1 night twin share accommodation at The Tanoa International – Nadi
7 nights twin share fare accommodation at Mala Island- Vava’u
Return aitport transfers in Tonga and Fiji

Meals
Half board meal package at Mala Island: breakfast and dinner daily

Snorkeler Package
3 x full day whale watching tours with Tongan Expeditions- includes: qualified whale guide, light lunch, hot drink and snorkelling equipment

Diver Package 3 x full day whale watching tours with Tongan Expeditions- includes: qualified whale guide, light lunch, hot drink and snorkelling equipment. 2 x Double Boat Dives with Tongan Expeditions – tanks, weights, dive guide services and a light lunch.

WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED
Travel insurance
Personal spending money
Any excess luggage surcharges

BOOKING CONDITIONS APPLY
Space is limited. Price is subject to change due to airline fluctuations and availability. Please use this package price as an indicative price guide. See other terms and conditions as per the Dive Adventures website – www.diveadventures.com.au

BOOKING REQUIREMENTS
To secure your place on this trip, you will need to complete an online booking form and return it together with a non-refundable deposit amount of $1200 per person.

Please find the booking link below to book onto the trip :

November 29, 2016
PHILIPPINES- Malapascua, Cabilao & Oslob
DIVE INFORMATION

Malapascua is a small island only 2.5km long and 1km wide. Also known locally as Logon, the island is located about 8km off the north eastern tip of Cebu island and 25km west of Leyte. You can walk around the island in 1-2 hours. It has a population of around 4,000 people, most of whom live off tourism, fishing, boat building or coconuts. White sandy beaches, the probability of seeing thresher sharks, manta rays and to dive some wrecks has made this a diver’s hotspot in the Philippines.

Epic thresher shark diving is our goal on the first half of the trip. 5 days of diving at Malapascua will present us with multiple opportunities to dive with these incredible creatures. Nothing will prepare you for the first time you see a thresher shark in the flesh. They almost don’t look real… A torpedo like body with a tail which dwarfs the rest of it and manga cartoonish eyes will have you wondering whether you have in fact seen it or if you have a touch of narcosis?! The thresher sharks of Malapascua will truly have you enthralled! Whilst it is the ocean and nothing can ever be guaranteed this is THE thresher shark hotspot on the planet so it would be incredibly unlikely for us not to see them.

Check out this footage to see what you could be seeing for yourself if you join us!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=s06c5DZxm84

The second half of our Philippines extravaganza is at the off the beaten path destination of Cabilao. The perfect place to slow things down combined with world class diving. Pygmy seahorses, critters as well as hard and soft corals of various species have made the island a must-see, especially for scuba divers. At present, there are two marine protected areas (no-take zones) around the island. The only motorized transport you can find are a few tricycles and a couple of motorcycles, who also serve as so-called ‘habal-habal’, they will bring you around for a small fee. However, most of the distances on Cabilao island are quite short, you can easily walk them. The lack of roads also means that everything on the island has to be brought in by banka (local outrigger boat): building materials, wood, food (except fish caught locally), and, during periods of drought, fresh water for drinking and bathing.

The other major draw card on our itinerary is two days of diving with the whale sharks at Oslob. There are few places in the world where you can guarantee the presence of whale sharks and be able to SCUBA dive with them! The whale sharks appear at Oslob every day to suck the fish out of the fishermens’ catch nets as they haul them aboard so there are plenty of opportunities to capture that new profile pic with the largest fish in the ocean! Aside from the whale sharks Cabilao also offers some fantastic reef and wall diving so we won’t be struggling for choice!

TRIP DATES

Dates TBA

PRICE

From Diver AU$4,251 per person

From Non Diver AU$3,068 per person

From Diver Ex-Cebu AU$3319 per person

WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Airfares Ex Brisbane / Singapore/ Cebu – Tagbilaran / Manila / Singapore /Brisbane flying with Singapore Airlines and Philippine Airlines
- Meet and greet in Cebu + road and boat transfers from Cebu to Malapascua
- 5 nights twin share standard accommodation at Buena Vida – Malapascua, Includes: Breakfast daily
- Transfer from Malapascua to Cabilao via Cebu – Road and boat transfers
- 5 nights twin share deluxe accommodation at Pura Vida – Cabilao
- Includes: All meals whilst at Pura Vida ( Breakfast, 2 course lunch & 3 course dinner )
- Transfer from Cabilao to Tagbilaran Airport
- 22 boat or shore dives with Sea Explorers in Malapascua and Cabilao
- Includes: 2 dives with the Whale sharks at Oslob, tanks, weights and dive guide services, Sanctuary fees
- Australian departure taxes
- Professional Dive Services Tour Leader
WHAT’S EXCLUDED
Travel Insurance
Personal spending monies
Excess Luggage surcharges

CONDITIONS APPLY

Prices are subject to change without notice due to fluctuations in PHP exchange rates and 2016 operator, hotelier and airline rates.

AIRFARES

Please be aware that this package has been based on indicative airfare prices. Prices are subject to change, your package price will be reconfirmed at the time of booking. Please use the package price as an indicative guide.

BOOKING REQUIREMENTS

To secure your place on this trip, you need to complete a booking form and return it together with a non refundable deposit of $700 per person + the cost of the international airfares and taxes.

Please find the Dive Adventures online booking form HERE

PADI SPECIALITIES SUITABLE FOR THIS TRIP

Advanced Open Water (perfect for this trip)
Under water Navigation
Nitrox
Deep Diver
Digital Underwater Photographer
Underwater Photographer
Underwater Videographer
Search and Recovery
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Underwater Navigation
Dry Suit Diver
Shark Awareness
Underwater Naturalist

This is the perfect way to complete a specialty course as you have already paid for the dives!!
January 27, 2016
JAPAN- DISCOVER YONAGUNI AND EXPLORE THE MONUMENT

Dog Tooth Tuna / Gymnosarda unicolor

THE TRIP

OKINAWA is the southernmost prefecture of Japan. The Ryukyu Islands consists of approximately 160 islands (48 of which are inhabited) of varying sizes stretching for 1,000 kilometres from east to west and from north to south in between the Philippine Sea and the East China Sea, from Kyushu (in the southwest of Japan) all the way to Taiwan.

Hawksbill Sea Turtle / Eretmochelys imbricata

YONAGUNI-JIMA DIVING-
Yonaguni Island is Japans most westerly point located 110 km off the coast of Taiwan and a 2 hour flightfrom Naha, Okinawa’s capital. Yonaguni is a small, remote, untouched island with a population of less than2,000 people. Most dive around Yonaguni are drift dives. Throughout the year there are schools of big eye trevally and barracuda, dogtooth tuna, turtles, large cuttlefish and more. There are many large rock formations, caverns and tunnels to explore. January to March is the main time for schooling Hammerhead sharks!

Yonaguni Monument- Yonaguni’s unique attraction for both archaeologists and divers alike are the mysterious underwater ruins which lie off the south coast of the island. Discovered in 1986. The megalith structures have sparked much debate as to whether they were completely naturally formed, were naturally formed the modified by man or are man-made structures created by an ancient civilisation dating back to the last Ice Age (around 10,000 BC) which would make the Monument the oldest man-made artefact on earth, pre-dating the pyramids in Egypt.

Military Barracuda, Sphyraena putnamae

It is hard to believe that the Monument was formed by completely natural processes. Key features include an archway entrance; twin megaliths standing perfectly side by side; a staircase; the main monument measuring some 100 metres long x 50 metres wide and 25 metres tall, with perfectly carved perpendicular terracing; a triangular shaped pool with a drainage channel; decorative rock carvings; a formation which looks distinctly like a face; and evidence of a cobbled loop road around the structures. Could this be the mythical lost continent Mu?

DIVE INFORMATION
Depth- 5- 40 metres

TRIP DATES

10 days/ 8 Nights Ex Brisbane

17- 27 January 2017

PRICE

$4,990 per person

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Return Airfares Ex Brisbane to Okinawa flying with China Airlines
Return Airfares Ex Okinawa to Yonaguni
1 nights twin share accommodation- Loisir Hotel, Naha City, Okinawa – includes breakfast
7 nights twin share accommodation- The Hotel Irifune- Yonaguni- includes breakfast and dinner daily
15 boat dives with Sou- Wes Yonaguni- includes tanks, weights and dive guide services (3 boat dives per day)
Lunch & Refreshments on diving days
Return Airport taxes throughout
Australian Departure Tax

WHAT’S EXCLUDED

Travel Insurance
Personal spending monies
Excess Luggage surcharges

CONDITIONS APPLY

Prices are subject to change without notice due to fluctuations in YEN exchange rates and 2017 operator, hotelier and airline rates.

BOOKING REQUIREMENTS

To secure your place on this trip, you need to complete a booking form and return it together with a non refundable deposit of $500 per person. Click HERE

An additional payment of $750 per person will be required 6 months prior to travel as the airfares from Okinawa to Yonaguni will need to be ticketed at this time.

PADI SPECIALITIES SUITABLE FOR THIS TRIP

Advanced Open Water
Underwater Navigation
Enriched Air/ Nitrox
Deep Diver
Digital Underwater Photographer
Underwater Photographer
Underwater Videographer
Search and Recovery
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Dry Suit Diver
Shark Awareness
Underwater Naturalist

This is the perfect way to complete a specialty course as you have already paid for the dives!!

February 7, 2015