Da Blue Juice

Da Blue Juice is an enthusiastic, friendly, personally involved, family run dive operation. Mich, Digger, Andrew & staff offer a spacious boat, licensed to carry 10 divers, dive as well as a unique diving service. From taking you to the best sites available & personally showing you the incredible marine creatures & their special "hidy-holes". Taking the drudgery out of diving, by carrying equipment by tractor to the boat & collecting and washing all equipment after the dive. This team certainly delivers on their promise to show you Sodwana's undiscovered sea as well as land secrets. Da Blue Juice offers you everything from scuba diving to surf safaris, adventure & game drives, hiking, camping & self-catering cottages.

Sodwana Bay is a marine sanctuary run by the Natal Parks Board of SA, situated 40km from the Mozambique border. It beats the worlds most southern most coral reefs & is renowned for its marine life. The sea temperature along this stretch of coast seldom drops below 20'C making it the perfect place to explore beneath the sea surface.

Sodwana is home to 95 identified species of hard & soft corals, sponge & many other incredible invertebrates packed into a 5m-50km reef complex, unaffected by bleaching. There are over 1200 species of fish, not to mention a wide variety of larger marine life namely: humpback whales, ragged tooth shark, whale shark, tiger shark, manta rays & giant morays.

The largest sea turtle, the leatherback, also nests in this part of the world as well as the logger head. Once were almost extinct but thanks to conservation efforts their numbers are increasing.

The diving sites are two, three, five, seven & nine miles along the coast from Jesser Point, plus other sides which each dive operator knows personally. There are about four or five different dives on each reef.

A much closer reef is Quarter-Mile where pregnant ragged tooth sharks can be viewed in the summer months. All this makes Sodwana one of the most compelling dive locations in the world.

Marine Life

Marine Life Sodwana bay has a biodiversity of marine creatures that compares with the best in the world. The real beauty lies in the finer detail of the reefs & is admired by divers around the world.

Sodwana Bay is home to 1200 recorded species of fish & continues to surprise, for example, new species of ghost pipe fish & nudibranch, previously unknown have been discovered. Also, there have been sightings of coelacanth in deep water just 800m from shore.

From turtles to potato bass, cod, black tip reef sharks, barracuda, whale sharks, emperor angelfish, trumpet fish, big eye soldier fish, lionfish, rays, morays, clownfish, parrot fish and unicorn fish. Drift along with large shoals of yellow snappers & fusiliers. Sodwana is also home to hard & soft corals, sponges & many other incredible invertebrates.

Activities

Many visitors forget that Sodwana is more than just a diving\game fishing mecca. It is also one of the greatest ecotourism destinations in Southern Africa, situated within the Great St Lucia Wetland Park, proclaimed a world Heritage Site & rated among leading Wetland conservationists as a "remarkable ecological compound of lakes, swamps, sandy forests, dunes, beaches & reefs".

Sodwana has the highest vegetated sand dunes, Africa's largest fresh water lake & the largest population of rhino in the world.

Activities Include:

• Diving
• Whale Watching
• Surf Safari's
• Eco tours to the Cosy Bay Lake System
• 4wd drive tours
• Fish BBQ's at sunset overlooking the lake with authentic
• * Zulu dancing
• Micro-light flights over the parks and sea