Mary Island

Divers often refer to Mary Island as the “best” dive of a trip. It is an uninhabited island with a stunning amount of hard corals and fish life. The schools of fish are amazing here especially when joined by sharks, turtles and bumphead parrot fish. You can expect to spend a whole day here.
 

Russell Islands

Leru Cut: A channel back into Leru Island forms a breathtakingly beautiful reef formation which when dived at the right time of day has amazing beams of light and fantastic photo opportunities. Surface at the end and see the vine covered cliffs, from which the jungle descends onto a sheer wall of fans and soft coral.

White Beach: The site of an American WWII base where trucks, bombs and ammunition were dumped into the sea. Both a fascinating historical dive and a fantastic macro site in an unusual mangrove location.

Mirror Pond: A stunning pond reflecting the jungle overhead. Outside on the reef is a sheer wall where snappers and travelly hunt and pygmy seahorses hide amongst gorgonian fans. The shallows host a stunning coral garden where crocodile fish, cuttlefish and anemone fish live.

Karumolun Point: The chief of Karumolun Island has banned all fishing and collecting on this dive site for five years, creating a local marine protected area. This point has great soft coral, a big school of jacks, barracudas and lots of sharks. Eagle rays are sometimes seen here too. The macro side of this dive site is fantastic as well, with possibilities of seeing disco clams (electric file shells), nudibranches, cuttlefish, crocodile fish and ghost pipefish.
 

Florida Islands

Twin Tunnels: This large sea mount, in the middle of the channel between Guadalcanal and the Florida Islands, has two tunnels which drop vertically straight down from 12m to an exit in a cave at 35m. Swimming out of the cave to the sheer wall there are schools of fusiliers, often with grey reef sharks cruising by. It is also home to some amazing coral, cuttlefish, octopus and mantis shrimp plus schools of snapper, tropical fish and an amazing array of anemone fish.

Devils' Highway: The best place in the Solomons for chances to dive with manta rays. A channel between two islands funnels water to form a strong currents and an adrenaline filled dive. Drift along the reef top, duck under the reef wall and hope for up to a dozen mantas to swim close by in formation to feed. They are often joined by sweetlips, jacks and bumphead parrotfish.

Maravagi Bay: A macro divers delight! A calm protected bay offering all sorts of great macro subjects such as nudis, demon stinger, scorpion fish, cockatoo wasp fish, various pipefish, cuttlefish, juvenile batfish, various anemone fish, shrimps and crabs. Plus a few of giant clams and a small wreck packed with batfish and bream.

Japanese Mavis Seaplane: A Japanese seaplane sunk during WW2 which sits upright on the bottom at 30m. The planer is impressively large and mostly intact. This site is also excellent for macro subjects with reef top pipefish, twin spot gobies and spine check anemone fish.