Malaita Outer Wall

The northeast coast of Malaita presents some of the most pristine and least visited reef walls in the entire Solomon Islands, largely because the island's remote reputation has kept liveaboard and day-trip traffic low. The outer walls begin at 5 metres and plunge vertically past 60 metres in an unbroken curtain of hard and soft corals rarely disturbed by anchors or diver traffic. Sea fans reach two metres across, black coral trees are abundant from 25 metres down, and the water column above the wall hosts spinner dolphins, wahoo, and occasional manta rays. Schooling hammerhead sharks have been reported at the deeper wall sections between June and September. The lack of infrastructure means access is principally by liveaboard, and the dive sites here carry a genuine frontier quality.