Me'ama Wall

A sheer vertical drop-off on the outer reef of Foa Island plunging from 5 metres to beyond recreational limits at 60-plus metres. The wall face is blanketed in sea fans up to 2 metres across, black coral trees, and enormous barrel sponges in ochre and purple. Grey reef sharks and a resident Napoleon wrasse patrol the blue water column. The top of the wall at 5 to 12 metres holds exceptional hard coral — mostly Acropora tables and Porites domes — with almost no bleaching evidence recorded on recent surveys. Mild current along the wall concentrates plankton and attracts schools of pyramid butterflyfish and big-eye trevally in the hundreds.