Natadola.

Natadola is a lovely resort beach on Fiji's Coral Coast, and its main wave is a left that breaks on a reef pass roughly 2km offshore. Closer to the sand, the shorebreak is good fun for bodysurfing, and an inside reef peak gives longboarders something to ride when a big swell is running. Out at the pass, the lefts rise up from deep water, bend onto the reef and peak along a line-up that can be messy and shifting. In smaller swells you can find long walls and hollow sections, with rides running 100 to 200 metres. Once the swell gets big, the place turns intimidating and erratic. This is a wave for advanced surfers. A smaller right sits a 1km paddle away and wants NE winds as well. Swells from the south round to the west all work, with SW the pick, and a NE wind cleans it up best. Strong SE wind is the main thing that spoils it. Go on the rising tide into high, because the outer reef sits dry for much of the time. It handles anything from about 0.6m up to around 3.7m, and the region's prime season runs from April to October. Getting out under your own steam is a real mission: beyond the resort, across the lagoon and over Lovo Island, then a reef walk at low tide that can last as long as an hour. The reef is exposed and paddling out takes ages, so the safer plan is a boat that drops you off and picks you up again. Local boats make the run out to the reef.

Long, hollow lefts on a deep-water pass, best reached by boat.