On all of these dives you realize why Fiji is called the soft coral capital of the world. Being familiar with Red Sea and South Eastern Asia dives, I had never witnessed such density and color variations for coral. Typically the dives occur around the walls of large patches coming up from the depths, crowned with glittery golden, blood red or lavender purple soft corals and swarms of anthias. On each dives we spotted grey reef or whitetip sharks, large spanish mackerels.. we sometimes had to choose whether we’d try to follow the large schools of trevallies and barracudas or the ubiquitous shark.