Jerry’s Jelly dive site is one of the most sublime places we’ve dove since Bonaire.   What a surprise!  We were riding on a high from the previous day’s dive on the Great White Wall.  We truly did not expect much from this dive.

Jerry’s Jelly is a sloping reef with depths ranging from 5-18m.  Two pinnacles with a variety of soft coral live under a ledge and gentle sway in the current.

A large number of garden eels, small colorful coral fish, Spanish mackerel, dogtooth tuna and white tip sharks can be found here.

However, we were proven very wrong!  Just when I thought nothing could possibly compare to the Great White Wall.

The Dive Crew

Our dive crew for Jerry’s Jelly dive site with Dive Academy: Matt and I, our friends Chris and Sarah (on sv SeaGlub), the driver, the guide (Marina) and the free dive guide (Tomu).

The dive site is about a 10 minute boat ride from Viani Bay Resort.  You drop in on the first bommie which is about 7-18 meters deep.

Here is a map of Jerry’s Jelly dive provided by Taveuni Dive Resort.  We actually dove with Dive Academy and they took us all around, not just the path indicated below.  We saw so much more and covered a lot more underwater ground than most dives.

Jerry’s Jelly Dive Site on the Rainbow Reef

The first bommie is magnificent!  There is a peek through arch which is covered in the same beautiful, white coral as the Great White Wall.  Next to it are yellow, red, green, and purple coral and fans next to it.  There are bazillion small fish around this area as well.

It was so difficult selecting the photos for the collages. I wanted to share them all with you.  However, that would have made for a very long blog post.

I admired this emerald green, leafy coral with its orange, yellow and blue fish.  Then I rounded the corner of the bommie and found another green coral with a vibrant white coral next to it.

So many varieties of fans and soft coral. I just did not know where to look first!

It was time to move on to the next bommie which I did reluctantly.  But then I was enraptured with this new bommie and its huge variety of sea life.  Holy cow it was stellar!

You could spend several hours around each bommie and still not see all of its beauty.

We continued on across the “gravel of the bottom of the sea.”  We were told not to expect much in this area.  Yet, there were still tons of colorful fish and vibrant corals.

We found a lovely clam and a pregnant white tip shark hanging out on the sea bed.

So Many Fish!

There were a lot of pelagic fish, tiny fish, and schools of fish on this dive.

And the schools of fish

And me in love with Jerry’s Jelly dive site!

The max depth was 18 meters (51′) and we were underwater for about 51 minutes. 

I could have easily spent days exploring this beautiful area.

Surprise, Manta Rays!

Sarah and Tomu went free diving and we met them back at the boat after our dive. 

They told us they had the pleasure of swimming with manta rays so we went to find them. 

Not 5 minutes later we were in the water  with 2 huge manta rays.  

I know the photos are not great, but there was a lot of plankton in the water.

Our blog posts run 6-8 weeks behind actual live events.

We dove Jerry’s Jelly dive site on 6 July 2025.

Don’t miss our blog post on the famous Great White Wall Dive site.

Jerry’s Jelly on No Foreign Land

Favorite Photos

Photos taken with DJI OSMO Action 5 with no light and no lenses. 

We were 20 meters deep with clear-blue water.

 

 

No Foreign Land write up: www.noforeignland.com/place/6755338971803042