Reunion is a very interesting island, being a French district. It is a domestic flight for EU countries to get here, no customs.
Diving, like everywhere, is weather and season dependent
Being a volcanic island and not a coral island makes for very interesting caves and narrow channels to swim through. The water temperature was 24 degrees Celsius and the visibility about 20 m. Abundant fish life and for the observant ones, lots of small stuff. Whale talk enhanced the dive experience.
We have just arrived back from a few days of great diving at Sodwana.
Sodwana Bay forms part of the iSimangaliso wetland park, which is a world heritage site. The diving here is great. It is probably one of the best scuba diving areas in the world. There is an abundance of large schools of fish, soft and hard coral. The potato bass are extremely friendly, inquisitive and tame.
This time we were surrounded by many humpback whales on every dive. They were everywhere in the water. Water temperature was between 22.5 and 23 degrees C. The water should start heating up now that it is the end of winter.
I managed to spend some time with a very friendly octopus on one of the dives and managed to get some great video footage. 
Esmé also managed to get some great still shots of just about everything.
