Arrival at Tawali

The buildings are difficult to see. The large deck area off the main lobby and dinning room is just visible half way up the hill just to the right of the boat at the main dock.

Covered walkway

These elevated walkways run throughout the resort.

Walkway to beach area

Approaching the beach area

Covered seating on the main deck

Hand carved wood totem on the table

Your webmaster having his morning coffee.

Dive boat

This was a very nice dive boat, lots of room and very fast.

Barrel sponge

Looking inside barrel sponge.

Soft coral and lots of fish.

Coral and lots of fish

Typical visibility was 100 feet plus.

One of the many walls to dive

Anenommefish

Anemonefish

Approaching a reef

One of the moorings set into a reef

Refilling tanks for another dive

Stern view of the Chertan

This was a great dive boat. We spent three days aboard the Chertan touring the waters and trying more remote dive sites.

Nice pinnicle on "JASON'S REEF"

Diver finds somthing interesting, not hard to do.

School of small blue fish

Clown Triggerfish

Diver checking out a coral head

Lacy Scorpionfish

Pufferfish relaxing on some coral

Nudibranch

Diver with dugout canoe

End of a current dive

Most of the dives were in slack or very slight current. A few however were in strong currents which were very unpredictable in these waters.

Chertan at mission dock

View from trail up to mission church

Sanddiverfish

Muck diving

This was my introduction to muck diving PNG style.

This is what they were looking at

Winged Ghost Pipefish

Polychaete Worm

Hairy Ghost Pipefish

Myestery shot

I don't remember taking this picture so I don't know if this is alive or not.

Sailfin Blenny

Frogfish

Blue Spotted Ray

Grouper

Tunicate colony

Giant clam and diver

Cuttlefish

Crockadilefish

Christmas tree worm

Mantis shrimp

Unicornfish

Blue parrotfish

Blue Jacks

Sunset on Milne Bay