EXPEDITION LIFE

ACCOMMODATION
During the dive training, you will stay in locally owned accomodation in Levuka town. After completion, we move to our remote island project location, where you will stay in a wooden chalet, right by the beach near the Research Station. You will live as a team with up to 11 others as well as your Project Leaders. The house backs on to jungle and looks out over the Pacific Ocean.

FOOD
Food will be cooked for your team by a local Fijian lady and her relatives. Most of the food you eat will be grown on the island, fished from local waters and bought for a fair price from the local community with your project donations.

Breakfast: homemade bread, pancakes and fruit
Lunch: rice or pasta, locally grown vegetables
Dinner: fresh fish, fijian root vegetables and fruit.

A DAY IN THE LIFE
Five days a week will be spent diving or snorkelling and supporting conservation / community work. Work will be assigned to the group on a daily / weekly basis. When not diving the team will be busy with either data interpretation and entry, creation of material for the community workshops or development work at the local school.

Volunteers have 2 free days a week. On one of these days, there will be the opportunity to do two fun dives, all included in the cost of your expedition, at one of the numerous local dive sites. This will give you the chance to see some of the local, stunning marine life without having to worry about working underwater!

Sunday is designated a day of rest - where volunteers can swim, snorkel, chill out at one of the nearby beaches, trek around the island and catch up on your letter writing home whilst you enjoy the peace and tranquility of life on a remote island. We will organise events with the local community so we may both gain a better understanding of each other and the fascinating differences between our cultures and communities.

WHO ELSE IS GOING?
Your team size will be up to 12 people of a variety of ages and backgrounds. All volunteers have one thing in common - an enthusiasm for conservation, scuba diving, the dedication to support valuable research and the desire to have a positive impact on the marine environment and local communities in developing countries.

For this Project all volunteers need to be PADI Advanced Open Water divers (AOW). However, if you do not currently hold these dive qualifications, you can still join the team. Pre-Project additional dive training can be organised and is run through Ovalau Watersports in Levuka, AT NO EXTRA COST! Call us for more info.

WEATHER
Levuka and Ovalau have a coastal, tropical, maritime climate with no extreme temperature fluctuations. The summer (UK winter) from November until April is warm and humid with calm and sunny days, often with short but heavy afternoon or night showers. The warmest and calmest time of year is February/March with temperatures of around 30 degrees Celsius. Water temperatures are always above 20º C and there is a mean annual variation of about 6º C.