Surf spot guide · Kadavu, Fiji
Typhoon Alley is a right-hand reef break in Kadavu's narrow Naiqoro Passage that only switches on now and then, and offers good, empty rides to advanced surfers when it does.
High Waves
Large waves up to 2.2m expected at Typhoon Alley. Peak conditions around 12:00 PM.
Exercise extreme caution when entering the water. Strong currents and large waves present. Warning valid until 9:00 PM.
Typhoon Alley is a right-hand reef break tucked into the narrow Naiqoro Passage on Kadavu, Fiji. Because the passage opens to the southeast, the wave only comes alive on the odd occasion. When it does break, the quality is good and rides can stretch somewhere between 100 and 200 metres. This is a wave for advanced surfers only. Swells anywhere from southeast round to southwest can work, with a southeast swell being the ideal. The wind needs to come from somewhere between north and west, and a northwesterly is the pick. Plan your session around the incoming tide and the high. Surfable size here runs from roughly 0.6 m up to about 2.4 m. Across the wider region, March, April and October tend to be the standout months. Expect to have it to yourself, with only the marine life passing through this big lagoon entrance for company.
An empty Kadavu right that only wakes up now and then.
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Crowds are rarely an issue, and the lineup usually sits empty.
Empty reef pass that rarely wakes up
Kadavu
Vesi Passage is a left in a pass on the Great Astrolabe Reef off north-east Kadavu, and it only comes alive when a rare north-west wind meets swell from the south-east round to the south-west, with south-west the pick, so leave it to advanced surfers.
Kadavu
A remote right-hand reef off Kadavu, about half an hour's boat ride from Nagigia Island, that serves up long, makeable barrels when a south swell meets a northerly wind.
Check the wind before heading out, since the wave needs a breeze from the north to west to get going.
Time your paddle out for the rising tide into high.
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